The Reform Alliance wants to free at least 1 million people in the next five years.
Pot use under prohibition creates a tremendous variety of costs, and one of them is the incarceration of over ten thousand federal cannabis prisoners.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation this week that would reduce prison terms for non-violent drug offenders, Reuters reports. Under the proposed reform, mandatory minimum sentences would...
At least 37 were killed as a prison in southern Venezuela exploded into rebellion, authorities said on Wednesday. The death toll at the facility in the...
Often referred to as a political prisoner, Richard John Wershe Jr. has finally been granted parole, after 30 years. He was 17 when convicted of a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials have been weighing new guidance that would encourage prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious offenses they can prove,...
Since his extradition to the United States this past January, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been held in one of the country’s highest-security federal prisons—the Metropolitan...