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Articles
Feds Bring an Ounce of Sanity to Our Drug Laws with the Second Chance Act
Attorney General "Ignoring Reality" of Draconian Crack Laws
What's the Going Price for a Joint?
Addressing Women's Incarceration: A National Survey of State Commissions and Task Forces on Women in the Criminal Justice System
Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates
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Bookstore
Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Race to Incarcerate
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
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Documents
Demand Prison Solutions, Not More Delays
Marijuana Arrest Crusade
ˇAlternativas a la Prisión Sirven! Resumen Ejecutivo
Diversion Works
New York State Democratic Conference
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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
Facts About Prisons & Prisoners: The Growing Corrections System


Multimedias
Profiled for Prison: The Selective Enforcement of Drug Laws [Video]
Assembly Public Safety Committee Hearing on AB 125
Myth of Crack Baby [Multimedia]
Medical Marijuana, Votes for Felons and Second Chances for All on Cultural Baggage [Audio]
Senior Warden Richard Watkins on Cultural Baggage [Audio]
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News Summaries
Obama and Drug Policy in 2009
DPA New Mexico Urges Comprehensive Prison Reform
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
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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
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Pamphlets
Westchester Connections


Polls
Americans Abandon "Punishment Only" Attitudes in Effort to Reduce Crime
More than Half of American Public Surveyed Feel Drug War Cannot Be Won


Position Papers
Books Not Bars: Juvenile Justice, Education and the United States


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
New Report Released: Healing a Broken System: Veterans Battling Addiction and Incarceration
Durbin Introduces Bill to End Crack/powder Sentencing Disparity
Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Becomes Active Tomorrow: 1,500 Incarcerated People Eligible for Resentencing and Release, Judges Now Have Discretion
Governor Says He’ll Appeal Federal Prison Overcrowding Ruling
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Reports
Healing a Broken System: Veterans Battling Addiction and Incarceration, Drug Policy Alliance; November 2009.
2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice
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
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Research Briefs
Drug Prohibition & the U.S. Prison System


Speeches
Ethan Nadelmann Speaks in Detroit


Testimony
Testimony Before the United States Sentencing Commission, Jasmine L. Tyler
Federal Sentencing Laws: U.S. Sentencing Commission Testimony


Unpublished Documents
New York City Misdemeanor Possession Of Marijuana (MPM) Arrests January - December, 1990 - 2004


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