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Four Reasons Black Incarceration Rates Are Going Down, While White Rates Are Going Up [FEATURE]
The prison population is a little whiter than it used to be. Here are some reasons why.
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Chronicle Book Review: This Side of Freedom: Life After Clemency, by Anthony Papa
The power to commute prison sentences is rarely exercised at the state level. Anthony Papa's newest memoir makes an implicit case for it to be used much more often.
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Obama Commutes Sentences for 46 Drug Offenders [FEATURE]
Last year, the Justice Department encouraged federal drug prisoners to apply for clemency and commutations. More than 30,000 have, and now they are starting to trickle out of prison.
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Chronicle AM: DEA Settles Facebook Suit, WY Decrim Bill Advances, More (1/21/15)
The DEA will pay for using a woman's identity (and photos) to make a fake Facebook page, a Wyoming decrim bill is moving, Virginia is seeing CBD and medical marijuana bills, there's a hemp bill in Florida, the Vera Institute releases a report on New York sentencing reforms, and more.
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Comedian Randy Credico's Deadly Serious Quest to Run New York [FEATURE]
Randy Credico is a veteran New York activist, gadfly, and comedian, but there's nothing funny about the issues he's campaigning on in his quest to be governor of New York.
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Chronicle AM -- June 12, 2014
Marijuana reform is exciting some third-party activity, New York's medical marijuana bill is still alive amidst ongoing last-minute negotiations, the New York Senate has passed a package of anti-opiate bills that will bring on more drug war, a high-level commission calls for radical drug policy changes in West Africa, and more.
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Chronicle Book Review: Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Marc Mauer is back with a new edition of the grounbreaking "Race to Incarcerate," this time with an updated graphic novel version designed to take his important message to a younger and broader audience.
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Look Out, New York, It's Credico For Mayor! [FEATURE]
New York City comedian Randy Credico is a very funny guy, but he's dead serious about rooting out class, race, and drug war injustice in the Big Apple, and he wants to be the next mayor.
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THE MOTHERS OF THE NEW YORK DISAPPEARED
Columbian Marching Powder: How Reforms to the Rockefeller Drug Laws Could Help the Alleged Ivy League Drug Dealers
In 2009, after years of debate and political wrangling, the New York state legislature finally passed a bill revising the state's notorious Rockefeller drug laws. Now it turns out that the first high-profile beneficiaries of the reforms could be a bunch of kids from Columbia University. The arrest of five students on Dec. 7 â they allegedly sold $11,000 worth of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, Adderall, and LSD â may be a "test case" for the new reforms.