Would You Move Into a Murder House?

Would You Move Into A Murder House?

Filed under: Drug Rehab Centers District of Columbia

I was watching Drugs Inc. on Nat Geo and in the background of a scene at a rehab center I noticed a poster with a guy shitting into a laundry basket. Would You Move Into A Murder House? You sure did. Dan: Is there a time limit on how long a dude can …
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All of Us Or None, Steve Collett, and Michelle Alexander Support SB 1506 – With an eye towards ending punitive drug policies that have made the United States the world’s largest incarcerator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation to reduce the penalty for Californians who possess small amounts of drugs for their own personal use. The bill, SB 1506, changes the penalty for the simple possession of drugs under state law from a felony, which is punishable by up to three years behind bars, to a misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to one year behind bars. SB 1506 will: Make the criminal justice system fairer for everyone, especially African Americans and Latinos, who are arrested and sentenced disproportionately for low level drug offenses; Help alleviate overcrowding in state prisons and county jails and save the state millions of dollars annually; and Free up money for rehabilitation, drug treatment and solving serious crimes Thirteen other states, the District of Columbia and the federal government already punish this offense as a misdemeanor. Those areas have slightly lower crime rates than felony states and slightly higher rates of people entering treatment. Co-sponsored by the ACLU of California, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Drug Policy Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the California NAACP, and William C. Velásquez Institute, SB 1506 is an excellent step toward fixing our broken criminal justice system and making realignment work better by …