Justice for None : How the Drug War Broke the Legal System

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910149760303321
• Autore: The Washington Post The Washington
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Diversion Publishing Corp., , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 9781682303177; 1682303179
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (84 pages)
• Soggetti: Mass incarceration - United States; Racism in criminal justice administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Justice For None: How the Drug War Broke the Legal System -- Copyright -- Introduction -- The painful price of aging in prison -- Against his better judgment -- From a first arrest to a life sentence -- Unlikely allies -- Slow steps to freedom -- A ‘virtual get-out-of-jail-free card’ -- Softening sentences, losing leverage -- Struggling to fix a ‘broken’ system -- President Obama commutes sentences of 95 federal drug offenders -- Obama’s clemency list brings joy to the lucky and anguish to the disappointed -- More from The Washington Post… -- Connect with Diversion Books
• Sommario/riassunto: When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent "war on drugs" sent non-violent offenders to prison for decades and, in some cases, life. As a result, the nation's prison and jail population today is 2.3 million, more than quadruple the number that were incarcerated in 1980. One in 100 adults is behind bars in America. As many as 100 million American adults now have criminal records, and a disproportionate number of those are men of color. Washington Post reporters, in a series of revealing and wrenching stories throughout 2015, unlocked the prison gates and allowed readers to experience the human devastation wrought by sentencing policies now under scrutiny.