Drug Policy Question of the Week – 7-21-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 7-21-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3945 Question of the Week: What is Stop and Frisk? A May 2011 briefing paper from the Drug Policy Alliance defines a “stop” as […]
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Race and Prison
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-28-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-28-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3770 Question of the Week: How many people of color are under the control of the U.S. corrections system? In its analysis of racial […]
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Changing Prisoner Numbers
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-15-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-15-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3752 Question of the Week: Why have the counts of drug prisoners changed? Government reports are notoriously foggy when it comes to those incarcerated […]
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Drug Prisoners
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-6-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-6-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3741 Question of the Week: How many people are under the control of the U.S. corrections system for drugs? Various reports from the Bureau […]
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Private Prisons
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 1-18-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 1-18-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3715 Question of the Week: What are private prisons? Last week we talked about the number of people under control of the U.S. criminal […]
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US Criminal Justice System
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 1-11-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 1-11-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3706 Question of the Week: How many people are under the control of the U.S. criminal justice system? An April 2011 report by the […]
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Marijuana Prisoners
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 12-19-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 12-19-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3677 Question of the Week: How many people are in prison for marijuana? Aficionados will recall that there are important statistics in drug policy […]
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Book Review – A Plague of Prisons
by Craig Jones Former Executive Director, The John Howard Society of Canada. A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America / By Ernest Drucker, The New Press, 2011, pp. xiv, 211 Every student of epidemiology learns the story of the Broad Street pump (London, Summer 1854), which […]
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Federal Agencies
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-6-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-6-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3576 Question of the Week: What federal agencies enforce drug laws? A new table based on a 2009 report from the RAND Corporation can […]