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Feature: New Jersey State Assembly Passes Bill Reforming State's "Drug-Free...
Like many other states, New Jersey adopted "drug-free school zone" laws in the 1980s in a bid to stop that iconic drug war menace, the dope peddler lurking in the schoolyard shadows trying to hook our...
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Sentencing: New Jersey Legislature Rolls Back Mandatory Minimums, Governor...
With a 46-30 vote Thursday, the New Jersey Assembly gave final approval to a bill that will end mandatory minimum sentences for some "drug free zone" drug offenses. The bill passed the Senate in...
View ArticleConservatives Board Sentencing Reform Bandwagon [FEATURE]
Struggling with chronic budget crises, lawmakers in more and more states are embracing sentencing and other reforms in a bid to hold down corrections costs. But while sentencing reform has long been...
View ArticleRethinking Drug-Free School Zones: Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Proposes...
For years, advocates of criminal justice reform in Massachusetts have been critical of the school zone law, which carries mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes that take place within 1,000 feet...
View ArticleKentucky Cuts Drug Sentences [FEATURE]
Kentucky has become the latest state to enact sentencing reforms in a bid to rein in skyrocketing corrections costs. Gov. Steve Beshear (D) last Thursday signed into law HB 463, a comprehensive...
View ArticleDrug Sentencing Reform Bill Passes Delaware House
The Delaware House of Representatives Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive drug sentencing reform bill. The bill, House Bill 19, would, most notably, make simple drug possession offenses...
View ArticleDelaware Senate Passes Drug Sentencing Reform Bill
Major drug sentencing reform is on the verge of being enacted in Delaware. The state Senate April 5 approved the reform bill, House Bill 19. The bill has already passed the House, but must return to...
View ArticleMassachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary Hearing
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View ArticleChronicle AM -- December 20, 2013
A pair of state appeals courts slap down cops who take people's medicine and won't give it back, there are problems with Kansas' drug testing law, Peru is buying shining new toys to prosecute its drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- April 4, 2014
Cops like to say they don't make the laws; they merely enforce them, but that wasn't exactly the case today in Louisiana, Oregon, and Washington, DC. Plus, decrim has a last hurrah in Maryland, an...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- April 25, 2014
An Oregon congressman fights to end federal marijuana prohibition, a DC congresswoman vows to fight for decrim in the District, a Brooklyn DA gets support for his stance on small-time pot charges, some...
View ArticleOne of the Worst Ideas to Come Out of the War on Drugs: Sentencing...
Video from the Prison Policy Initiative on what is indeed one of the worst ideas to come out of the wread more
View ArticleChronicle AM: CO 2014 Legal Pot Sales at $700 Million, Kettle Falls 5 Will Go...
Final marijuana sales figures are in for Colorado, twin legalization bills are filed in Maryland, a second Ohio legalization initiative campaign gets underway, a federal judge orders the Kettle Falls...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Pro-Legalization Majority in Pew Poll, DEA Chief on Hot Seat...
Another poll has a national majority for legalization, the DEA head gets skewered over taxpayer-funded sex scandals, the Senate Judiciary Committee eyes civil asset forfeiture reform, and much, much...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Bernie Sanders Criminal Justice Proposals, British Drug Deaths...
Bernie Sanders rolls out a radical criminal justice reform package, marijuana legalization initiatives get moving in Arizona and South Dakota, Atlanta rejects expansion of drug-free commercial zones,...
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