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Medical Marijuana: Will Foster Extradited to Oklahoma
Medical marijuana patient Will Foster is behind bars in Oklahoma after being picked up last Friday by Oklahoma law enforcement officials. He had been held at the Sonoma County Jail in Santa Rosa,...
View ArticleWill Foster is Back in Prison in Oklahoma and Needs Your Help
Will Foster’s nightmarish saga continues. Foster, you may recall, is the medical marijuana patient who was sentenced to 93 years in prison for growing a few plants in 1997. Thanks in no small part to a...
View ArticleWill Foster is Almost Free. You Can Help Open That Prison Door By Acting Now
The Drug War Chronicle has written several times about the trials and tribulations of medical marijuana patient Will Foster, who is currently sitting in once again in an Oklahoma prison, jerked back...
View ArticleWill Foster is Free! He Walked Out of Prison in Oklahoma Today
Medical marijuana patient Will Foster is a free man. According to a phone call I just received from his partner, Susan Mueller, Foster was released on parole and walked out of prison in Oklahoma today....
View ArticleSentencing: California Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Probationer's Medical...
A California appeals court has ruled that a judge who forbade a defendant from using medical marijuana as a condition of probation acted within his powers. The 2-1 decision was harshly criticized by...
View ArticleSentencing: South Carolina Governor Signs Reform Bill, Will End Mandatory...
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) Wednesday signed into law a sentencing reform package that includes ending mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses. The bill, SB 1154 was based on the...
View ArticleGrowth of Ex-Offender Population in United States Is a Dramatic Drag on...
For Immediate Release:November 15, 2010Contact: Alan Barber, (571) 306-2526Washington, D.C.- Three decades of harsh criminal justice policies have created a large population of ex-offenders that...
View ArticleFelons Who Want Medical Marijuana Put State in Awkward Position
Out of 320 requests from felons on supervision in Washington, seven people have gotten permission to use medical marijuana — a select group that includes a forger wasting away from AIDS and a...
View ArticleMassachusetts Governor Patrick Proposes Sentencing, Parole Reforms for Drug...
Mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes that don’t involve guns or children would be repealed, giving more discretion to judges, and certain drug offenders serving mandatory minimums in state...
View ArticleRepublican Lawmakers Shifting Tough-On-Crime Stance As State Budget Problems...
In no state is the philosophical U-turn more abrupt than in Oklahoma, where last year the Legislature was barreling in the opposite direction. New Republican Speaker of the House Kris Steele is...
View ArticleOklahoma House Passes Corrections Reform Bill
The Oklahoma House of Representatives Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill designed to relieve prison overcrowding. The bill, House Bill 2131, would substantially change the way Oklahoma sentences...
View ArticleCalifornia Corrections "Realignment" Not Nearly Enough [FEATURE]
Faced with a staggering budget deficit and a prison overcrowding crisis, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and the state legislature have approved legislation that would shift responsibility for...
View ArticleUS Prison Population in First Decline Since 1972
In two reports released last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced that for the first time since 1972, the US prison population had fallen from the previous year and that for the...
View ArticleOklahoma Governor Signs Prison Reform Bill
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) last Thursday signed into law a bill designed to lower the state's prison population. The state's incarceration rate is first in the nation for female prisoners and third...
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Did You Know? Drug Offender Numbers in Prison, Jail, Probation and Parole, on...
Did you know that in 2009 there were 1.7 million people in US prisons, jails, or on probation or parole for drug offenses? Since 1990, the number of people in those four categories grew by 78.9 percent...
View ArticleSentencing: California Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Probationer's Medical...
A California appeals court has ruled that a judge who forbade a defendant from using medical marijuana as a condition of probation acted within his powers. The 2-1 decision was harshly criticized by...
View ArticleSentencing: South Carolina Governor Signs Reform Bill, Will End Mandatory...
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) Wednesday signed into law a sentencing reform package that includes ending mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses. The bill, SB 1154 was based on the...
View ArticleGrowth of Ex-Offender Population in United States Is a Dramatic Drag on...
For Immediate Release:November 15, 2010Contact: Alan Barber, (571) 306-2526Washington, D.C.- Three decades of harsh criminal justice policies have created a large population of ex-offenders that...
View ArticleFelons Who Want Medical Marijuana Put State in Awkward Position
Out of 320 requests from felons on supervision in Washington, seven people have gotten permission to use medical marijuana — a select group that includes a forger wasting away from AIDS and a...
View ArticleMassachusetts Governor Patrick Proposes Sentencing, Parole Reforms for Drug...
Mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes that don’t involve guns or children would be repealed, giving more discretion to judges, and certain drug offenders serving mandatory minimums in state...
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