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The Incredible Impact of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Medical Marijuana Special

A little over a week ago, Dr. Sanjay Gupta aired a one hour CNN special on medical marijuana. The impact of his special and an op-ed that he wrote for CNN – where he apologized for his past opposition...

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Jerry Brown Considers Prison Alliance Between Private Company, Union

Governor Brown with Assembly Speaker John Perez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has no intention of releasing state prisoners...

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How America’s Biggest Jail System Just Got Bigger

Two years ago, in an effort to ease overcrowding in California’s prisons, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a law that shifted the responsibility for many low-level, nonviolent offenders to the counties....

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Weed More Likely Than Rape or Murder to Get an Undocumented Immigrant Detained

As with any policy shift, the gradual regulation of marijuana in the United States will have implications for a wide variety of populations. Indeed, the removal of marijuana from the criminal justice...

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California’s Overcrowding Crisis: For-Profit Prisons Win Big

When America’s largest private prison company opened a 2,000-bed facility in a barren stretch of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California in 1997, there was no guarantee that any inmates would ever...

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