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...
View ArticleJerry 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...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleWeed 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...
View ArticleCalifornia’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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