References Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, Pfaff's Locked In, the Marshall Project, Vox, Common Justice, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and more.
Local Government Finances, U.S. Census; annotations from towns’ fiscal year 2019 financial audits. Cities and towns that receive significant revenue from fines and fees · More than 10 percent of revenue from fines and fees
drug offenses. FACT: the most common offenses are violent crimes (like murder, assault, and robbery), which nearly 40 percent of the prison population is in for.
for the following: (Risk for) intimate partner violence Multiple sexual partners Alcoholism and alcohol abuse Sexually transmitted diseases Chronic pulmonary disease Smoking Depression Suicide attempts Fetal death Unintended pregnancies Health-related quality of life Early initiation of smoking Illicit drug use Early initiation of sexual activity Ischemic heart disease Adolescent pregnancy Liver disease (Risk for) sexual violence Poor work performance Poor academic achievement Financial stress
of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”