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Addressing Women's Incarceration: A National Survey of State Commissions and Task Forces on Women in the Criminal Justice System

"Operation Any Booking" Just Business as Usual

Women, Harm Reduction, and HIV

Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates

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Bibliographies

Economics of the Drug War Bibliography

Book Chapters

Women: Research and Policy: Part I

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern

Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System

Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement

Know Your Rights: Every American's Guide to Dealing with Law Enforcement

With Child: Substance Use During Pregnancy: A Woman-Centred Approach

Documents

SM 19: Building Healthy Families by Promoting Drug Treatment

Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000

Life Sentences: The Collateral Sanctions Associated with Marijuana Offenses

Efficacy and Impact: The Criminal Justice Response to Marijuana Policy in the U.S.

An Analysis of Alternatives to New York City's Current Marijuana Arrest and Detention Policy

Legal

Whitner v. South Carolina, Amicus brief from the Lindesmith Center

Whitner vs South Carolina, Appendix of the Amicus brief from the Lindesmith Center

Whitner vs South Carolina, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari: Opinion

Letters

Letter to Texas District Attorney Randall Sims on the Arrest of Pregnant Women for Child Abuse (Sign-On Letter)

Multimedias

Debate: Ethan Nadelmann and James Q. Wilson

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition on Cultural Baggage [Audio]

Judge James Gray, Judge Voigt & Les Ribnik on Cultural Baggage [Audio]

Dr. Tom O'Connell and Howard Wooldridge on Cultural Baggage

Joe McNamara's Appearance on Cultural Baggage [Audio]

News Articles

Court to Consider Whether Doctors, Cops Should Cooperate to Prosecute Pregnant Women

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case Against Hospital and Police for Wrongfully Arresting and Jailing Pregnant Women and New Moms

News Summaries

101-Year-Old Woman Almost Evicted from her Own Home

Save Money and Lives in Connecticut

Remembering Justice Gerald LeDain

Report Shows Racial Impact of Drug War Policies in Counties Across U.S.

Victory in New Mexico Supreme Court

Opinions

Excessive Force Used in Marijuana Arrests

A New Bottom Line for the War on Drugs

Polls

Multilingual Poll of California Ethnic Groups on Criminal Justice Issues

Press Releases

Prison Agency Announces Youth Prison Closure, As Proposed by Community Groups

Corrections Reform Bill Stalls in Sacramento

Legislature Eliminates Funding for Prop 36 Voter-Mandated Drug Treatment; Ends Incarceration of Nonviolent Drug Offenses

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Operator Charles C. Lynch Sentenced to One Year in Federal Prison despite Change in Federal Policy

New Justice Department Report: 1 in 31 Americans in Prison, Jail, on Parole or Probation

Reports

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States

The Vortex: The Concentrated Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Countie

California's Criminal Justice System: A Primer

Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004

The Punitiveness Report - HARD HIT: The Growth in Imprisonment of Women, 1977-2004

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Policy Issues Concerning Women Offenders and Their Children

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