Bernie and Hillary's Marijuana Misconceptions
Both candidates seem to think our prisons are filled with pot smokers.
Both candidates seem to think our prisons are filled with pot smokers.
Both candidates exaggerate marijuana's role in mass incarceration.
Clinton is still noncommittal on marijuana legalization, even though she mistakenly thinks most low-level, nonviolent offenders in prison are there for smoking pot.
Is reducing prison terms reckless in light of drug and crime trends?
Beginning at the end of the month, some 6,000 drug offenders will get out earlier than originally expected.
Harlem activists called for federal troops to "clean up" the streets, demanded life sentences for drug dealers.
Closing private correctional facilities would make life worse for prisoners and taxpayers.
The U.S. isn't the only country to have seen a recent prison boom.
Missouri man finally gets a second chance after "watching child molesters come and go and come again."
Former prosecutor Bill Otis has been mistaken over and over again when advising legislators against reducing drug sentences.
Head of federal officers association says Obama commuting the sentences of 46 prisoners is "releasing the lions."
Potential harsh discipline for absurd reasons.
New information released about Homan Square's secret operations.
We're both winning and losing the drug war, so don't change anything!
Reagan-appointed judge questions fairness of criminal-justice system
Dionne Wilson joined Sen. Rand Paul and a bipartisan roster of lawmakers and advocates at yesterday's "Fair Justice" summit in D.C.
The president can do much more to correct unjust sentences, but time is running out.
The SAFE Justice Act gets a boost from the House speaker.
The president still thinks drug offenders belong behind bars.
Record does not suggest support for the 'Right on Crime' movement.
Laogai prison survivor Harry Wu on human rights abuses in China.
California's ripe for ideas about prison reform, and the right is delivering
The SAFE Justice Act tackles overcriminalization and overfederalization.
Meanwhile, Martin O'Malley tries to reposition himself.
Three years in prison without a trial, often in solitary, contributed to young man's suicide.
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
Outrage over private prisons are largely a distraction from the wider issues of the prison-industrial complex.
Prison cells have replaced mental institutions.
Yet plenty of cops who have gunned down innocent, unarmed citizens are still walking a beat.
The former secretary of state glides over her own role in promoting overincarceration.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee promoted the overincarceration she now condemns.
The Republican presidential candidate notes the need to "undo some of the harm inflicted by the Clinton administration."
"I don't know all the answers," the presumptive Democratic nominee confesses.
No, the state cannot forbid those convicted of crimes from saying things that could 'retraumatize' their victims.
Aren't Democrats supposed to be more enlightened on this issue?
Legend can only "hope" Hillary will be as good.
Josh Gravens went to prison when he was 12 for touching his sister's vagina. Now he's fighting to change the laws that destroyed his life.