Tatum O'Neal's Drug Bust Sentence: Appropriate or Not?
Nonviolent drug offenders like Tatum O'Neal should be given an opportunity to receive treatment, not jail time. This would be a more effective solution for both the individual and the community.
Nonviolent drug offenders like Tatum O'Neal should be given an opportunity to receive treatment, not jail time. This would be a more effective solution for both the individual and the community.
Jamie Fellner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Why the never-ending prison growth? Three ill-considered policies: the war on drugs, draconian sentencing laws, and punitive parole practices.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Now is the time to question what it means for society to turn from state-sanctioned executions to punishments that impose what many prisoners describe as "in-house death sentences."
David Feige | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home
Michael Brick's ambitious piece in today's New York Times about the wide ranging narcotics prosecutions in the housing projects of Brooklyn omitted ...
David Feige | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Not only have many defendants been sentenced for stuff the jury acquitted them of, but yesterday the Supreme Court refused to do anything about it.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
While Bill Clinton is apologizing for not having done more to reduce the disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, his wife opposes even the most modest attempt to fix the problem.
Tony Newman | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living
While it is easy to point fingers at baseball players, let's slow down for a moment and take a look in the mirror. We may be surprised to see how much "performance enhancing" goes on all around us.
Anthony Papa | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
For many of those who have fallen through the cracks of Rockefeller Drug Law reform, their only hope to regain their freedom is through the act of executive clemency.
Tony Newman | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
In upcoming elections it is going to be "drug baiting" and support of inhumane and racist laws that will cost more votes than having tried marijuana when you were young.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
We can do better. Incarceration shouldn't be our society's first or primary response to a minority youth in trouble.
Byron Williams | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics
More than 80 percent of the defendants prosecuted for a crack offense are African-American. Ironically, more than two-thirds of crack users are white or Hispanic.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment
The public scapegoat of blacks for America's drug problem during the past two decades has been relentless, and the at all costs hunting down by Richie (Crowe) of Lucas (Washington) in American Gangster is stark testimony to that relentlessness.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court took up two cases concerned with the nettlesome racial politics of the war on drugs. One of the cases, Kimbrough...
Michael Roston | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
While the question of racial disparities in cocaine sentences is hot in the courts, it isn't lighting up the presidential campaign trail in any serious way.
Anthony Papa | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
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Anthony Papa | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics