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General Commentary
Virginia ramps up its war on pot – and the arrests show a disturbing racial divide, Washington Post, October 28th, 2015
Why the Drug War was a Forty Year Lynching, Op-Ed News, October 28th, 2015
How a Botched Drug Raid in Utah Sparked an Unlikely Movement, Huffington Post (6-part series), October 26th, 2013
There is No Good Drug War by Maya Schenwar, in TruthOut, July 31st, 2013
The People vs. the War on Drugs by Maya Schenwar in TruthOut, November 13th, 2012
The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Created a Permanent American Underclass, Michelle Alexander in the Huffington Post, May 8th, 2010
Addiction & Public Health
In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek a Gentler War on Drugs, New York Times, October 30th, 2015
Heroin, Murder, and the New Front in the War on Drugs, Vice, September 28th, 2015
Crack, Heroin, and Race: How White Users Made Heroin a Public Health Problem, The Atlantic, August 12th, 2015
The Surprising Factors That Can Make People 4600% More Prone to Addiction, Alternet, May 27th, 2015
The War on Drug Addicts – and Everyone Else by Maya Schenwar, December 19th, 2011
Global War on Drugs
Cartel Land: The War on Drugs is the Elephant in the Room, PanAm Post, December 23rd, 2015
The Beginning of the End for the War on Drugs? UN Agency Advocates Decriminalization, Says War on Drugs Violates Human Rights, Atlanta Black Star, October 29th, 2015 (archived)
Key Figures in CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin to Come Forward, The Huffington Post, October 10th, 2014
Mandatory Sentencing
A Plea from Behind the Walls: Please Limit Mandatory Minimums, Huffington Post, November 10th, 2015
Justice at last? Michigan Chronicle, November 4th, 2015 (discusses federal release of prisoners, see below)
The Truth About Mandatory Minimums: The Left’s Painful but Necessary Conversation, Salon, October 29th, 2015 (a review of Michael Fortner‘s book, Black Silent Majority)
Thousands of Federal Inmates Being Released Early Are Headed Home Starting Friday, Washington Post, October 28th, 2015
Justice Department set to free 6,000 prisoners; largest one-time release, Washington Post, October 6th, 2015
Inmate Released by Presidential Decree: ‘I am completely confused,’ Colorlines, July 23rd, 2015
We Talked to One of the 46 Inmates Barack Obama Released from Prison, Vice.com, July 21st, 2015
Releasing Drug Offenders Won’t End Mass Incarceration, FiveThirtyEight blog, July 18th, 2015
Obama Commutes Sentences of 46 Nonviolent Drug Offenders, The New York Times, July 13th, 2015
Federal Judge: My Drug War Sentences Were Unfair and Disproportionate, The Atlantic, June 29th, 2015
Mandatory Rehab is Just the Newest Front in the Flawed War on Drugs by Maya Schenwar, op-ed in The Guardian, October 27th, 2014
A Chronicle of Dystopia and Resistance
Chicana Feminist KillJoy
A Reclamation of the Pre-Columbian Mind
killing joy as a world making project
Exploring the history of the jail crisis
Researching Limerick 100 years ago, Slavery, Memory, Power
Space, politics, geographical thought
technology - race - policy
A website dedicated to Limerick's involvement in WW1
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda
A blog by Austin C. McCoy: Where history, politics, and culture converge...
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A clearinghouse for information, analysis, and resources related to state sanctioned violence in the United States