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Press Releases

Articles

Clinton's Crack Cocaine Apology: Too Little Too Late?

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

Déjà Vu All Over Again? Precedents to an "Unprecedented" Cocaine Price Spike

The Sentencing Projects Shares New Insight on Women in the Criminal Justice System

Students on the Drug War's Front Lines

Book Reviews

Coke & the CIA: The real thing?

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Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs

All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women

The Cocaine War in Context: Drugs and Politics

Documents

New York State Democratic Conference

Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Fact Sheet

State of NM v. Martinez Amicus Brief

Morse v. Frederick, Amicus Brief on Free Speech for Students

In re: United States v. Lincoln Brown. Brief of the Drug Policy Alliance and Professor Nkechi Taifa as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant

Fact Sheets

Legislative Proposals for Reform of the Crack/Cocaine Disparity

The Federal Prison Population: A Statistical Analysis

Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable

Multimedias

Profiled for Prison: The Selective Enforcement of Drug Laws [Video]

Assembly Public Safety Committee Hearing on AB 125

Cocaine Country

George Martorano's Appearance on Cultural Baggage

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

Obama and Drug Policy in 2009

Sentencing Reform Legislation Makes Progress in New Jersey

Momentum for Medical Marijuana and Sentencing Reform in New Jersey

New Jersey Takes First Step Towards Sentencing Reform

Call the Senate on the Crack/Powder Disparity

Opinions

Last Shot for a Bush Legacy?

Major Blow Struck Against Racist U.S. Crack Sentencing Rules

Chambers' Arrest Highlights Need for Further Reforms

Congress Must Change Racist Crack Cocaine Laws

No Time to Waste in Sentencing Issue

Presentations

California Medical Association Statement

Press Releases

NJ Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote Monday on Groundbreaking Sentencing Bill that Would Give Judges the Discretion to Waive Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Some Nonviolent Drug Offenses

House Judiciary Committee Eliminates Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

Congress and Obama Administration Embrace Major Drug Policy Reform

Presidential Commutations Urged for Prisoners Serving Long Crack Cocaine Sentences

Mexican President Proposes Decriminalizing Small Amounts of Some Drugs, Including Marijuana and Cocaine despite U.S. Opposition

Reports

2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice

Latin American Drugs I: Losing the Fight

Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey

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

Disparity by Geography

Speeches

Harm Refusal: Making Peace with Cocaine, and Advancing from Harm Reduction to Harm Refusal

United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Speaking to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco

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