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Mentioning his friend once again, who he said got his life back thanks to treatment programs while in jail, Kristof wrote, "Drew made poor choices, but there’s plenty of blame to go around.
This week, Wisconsin lawmakers listened to at times heartbreaking testimony about the state's embattled prison system, both from former guards and family members of those incarcerated.
A liberal majority on Wisconsin’s court will counter the GOP’s efforts to subvert democracy “A redrawn map could put two or three GOP-held seats in Congress in play for Democrats. …
The 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances made it mandatory for the signatory countries to "adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law" (art. 3, § 1) all the activities related to the production, sale, transport, distribution, etc. of the substances included in the most ...
Separately, found guilty of violating Alien and Sedition Acts and sentenced to four months in jail, during which time he was re-elected (1798). [2] Charles F. Mitchell (R-NY) U.S. Representative from New York's 33rd District was convicted of forgery, sentenced to one year in prison and fined, though he was paroled early due to poor health (1841).
[1] The U.S. government has argued that illegal drugs are "far more deadly than alcohol" saying "although alcohol is used by seven times as many people as drugs, the number of deaths induced by those substances is not far apart. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during 2000, there were 15,852 drug-induced deaths ...
Liberals who gained majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week voted Friday to reduce powers of the conservative chief justice and make a series of other changes to how the court ...
Several authors have put forth arguments concerning the legality of the war on drugs. In his essay The Drug War and the Constitution , [ 1 ] libertarian philosopher Paul Hager makes the case that the War on Drugs in the United States is an illegal form of prohibition, which violates the principles of a limited government embodied in the United ...