Topic: Sentencing reform

San Francisco plans to erase thousands of marijuana convictions

• After sounding alarm about increased crime, Sessions credits Trump with crime rate drop in first half of 2017
• California offers second chance to people convicted of marijuana crimes
• White House opioid commission rejects medical marijuana as pain relief option
• Here’s how much Virginia taxpayers are spending to jail marijuana users
• Top law enforcement urge Trump, Sessions not to lock up low-level drug offenders
• NFL uses its muscle to endorse criminal justice legislation
• In spite of Jeff Sessions, criminal justice reform still moving forward
• Other Roots: World-wise Inge Fryklund on dogged quest to end destructive drug war
• Sessions isn’t making America safer. He might be making it more dangerous
• Jeff Sessions’ drug policies will expand black market, not reduce crime
• Sessions: Softened approach to drug enforcement led to surge in drug abuse and violent crime
• America’s mass incarceration problem in 5 charts — or, why Sessions shouldn’t bring back mandatory minimums
• Thousands arrested for weed before California legalization apply to have sentences, convictions reduced
• This judge and prosecutor warn of “great suffering” with Sessions’ return to mandatory minimum sentences
• Sessions overturns Holder memo, returns to harshest drug sentencing policy
• Sessions-driven DOJ memo will likely revive aggressive prosecution, mandatory minimum sentences
• Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice blasts colleagues for upholding ‘ridiculous’ 18-year sentence for weed
• Sessions’ ambition to revive old-school war on drugs dismays veterans of that war
• Sessions’ right-hand man, Steven Cook, thinks Holder DOJ was “soft on crime”
• Cannabist Show: She’s a watchdog for cannabis consumers; His heart’s in hemp
• The hypocrisy of embattled Oklahoma Sen. Shortey regarding marijuana
• Federal marijuana convictions dropped by half under Obama
• Sessions’ potential new drug policies could reverse trend of declining prison populations
• ‘America is full of hypocrites’: Man serving life for marijuana speaks out

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