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... enforcement to eliminate drug sales and possession, drug use rates have remained steady.5 Yet due to an unregulated and increasingly unpredictable drug supply, drug overdose mortalities have skyrocketed.6 Over one million drug overdose deaths have occurred in the United States since the onset of the crisis...

...-based supervision. drug screening overdose crisis substance use disorder drug treatment reentry supervision community-based crime prevention Drug Court formerly incarcerated persons © The Ohio State University Drug Screenings in Practice: Narratives from People on Parole and Probation...

... of caregivers rather than a police force. Back at the turn of the century, faced with a crippling overdose crisis and bulging jails lled with drug users, Portugal decided to decriminalize all drugs and move away from a punitive regime toward a health-centered 48 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 32, NO. 1...

... cking could be conducted without violence, the underlying conduct placing highly addictive and dangerous drugs on the street is extremely harmful to our nation. We are in the midst of one of the worst drug epidemics in our history. Fatalities through overdoses of illegal drugs are skyrocketing...

... UNIVERSITY KYLE STRICKLAND Senior Legal Research Associate KELLY CAPATOSTO Senior Research Associate LEIGHA GROSH Intern, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity CYAN BLACKWELL Student, John Glenn College of Public Affairs Introduction Mass incarceration is a crisis in America. Nationwide, 2.2...

... an example of the struggle of criminal justice reform: justiceinvolved individuals can be diverted to the treatment they need for rehabilitation, or they can be incarcerated without treatment and end up re-offending or dying of an overdose. Effective sentencing policy can ensure the former and prevent...

... tremendous success in improving outcomes for children and helping build stronger families through evidence-based practices. It gives both parents and children access to services that they desperately need, such as therapeutic preschools, early childhood therapy, crisis intervention, drug and alcohol recovery...

... for fueling the ongoing opioid crisis, DEA has continued to acknowledge that most of the methamphetamine available in the United States is clandestinely produced in Mexico and smuggled across the SWB (southwest border). Methamphetamine purity and potency have remained very high, while prices have remained...

... for technical violations, the public safety and rehabilitation outcomes of reducing violations should then be carefully evaluated before technical violations are reinstated to pre-crisis levels. 67 Spokane s order also stated that the court and probation department should reduce the number of people they put...

... release (where in prior years only a few dozen petitions were led),4 leaving courts to struggle over what quali es as extraordinary and compelling under an outdated guideline.5 At the same time, the nature and incidence of crime changed dramatically over the course of the pandemic, while overdose...

... the ideological spectrum are pushing for a reevaluation of priorities, and for incarceration alternatives for people who pose no real threat to public safety. This crisis should sharpen and refocus our work for a more fair and effective criminal justice system. The case for reform already so compelling has...

... between imprisonment rates and rates of drug use, overdose deaths, or arrests for drug law violations.7 In other words, evidence shows more punitive criminal justice responses such as felony convictions are not effective tools to deter drug use or mitigate the harm it can cause. On the other hand...

... Additionally, drug crime (particularly traf cking of opiate-based narcotics) is increasing at alarming rates. The traf cking of opiate-based narcotics has led to what Time magazine has described as the worst addiction crisis the country has ever seen According to the Centers for Disease Control...

... sentencing reform. Congress created crack penalties in 1986 at the height of a public and media frenzy over the emergence of crack cocaine and in the wake of basketball star Len Bias s untimely death from a cocaine overdose.18 Defendants convicted with just five grams of crack cocaine, the weight of two...

... the color of someone s skin. Despite the long-failed policies, the scal crisis, and the increased discussion of treatment instead of incarceration, the reality of modern campaign politics means that there is almost no constituency to vote against a crime bill or to vote in favor of reduced penalties. Ever...

... in the mid-1980s. Crack cocaine hit many of America s major cities at about the same time, seemingly accompanied by a surge in drug-related violence.57 By June 1986, when college basketball star Len Bias died of an overdose of drugs mistakenly reported in the media at the time as a crack overdose58 a crack...

..., Congress was reacting, in part, to the high-profile drug overdose of basketball star Len Bias. The new laws were enacted without any hearings, debate, or study. Today, after twenty years of experience, it is clear that the current mandatory minimums have failed as badly as those enacted in the 1950s...

... in which this principle applies is in drug cases. The national opioid epidemic demands solutions far more innovative than just prosecuting and sentencing individuals for drug possession.40 For example, in 2017, DA Vance created the Manhattan HOPE (Heroin Overdose Prevention and Education) program...

... crisis. Quickly taking advantage of his stronger legislative position in early 2009, Governor Doyle added to the state budget bill a complex set of corrections reforms that were intended to reduce the size (and scal burden) of Wisconsin s prison population. The earned release reforms included...

... by the so-called crack crisis did not exempt New York City, even though the state s drug laws were already among the toughest in the nation. Operation Pressure Point was piloted by the NYPD on the lower east side of Manhattan in 1985.10 Soon the drug enforcement dragnet was spread across City streets...