US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call …
Nov 21, 2024 · T he landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will move forward as planned, despite an onslaught of lawsuits and delay tactics from the corrections industry. The first of the new FCC caps will be enforced January 1, 2025. On November 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...
Advocates, Lawmakers Urge Biden to Expand Cannabis Clemency …
Nov 21, 2024 · O n November 20, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, their families and congressmembers gathered at the United States Capitol, urging President Joe Biden to use his clemency powers to help repair decades of injustice caused by cannabis prohibition. A press conference was led by representatives of the Last Prisoner Project (LPP), and featured prominent lawmakers including Representatives ...
Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” …
Oct 8, 2024 · O regon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple possession of all drugs from early 2021. Counties across the state are responding to this rollback in different ways, but an example of the most common model is in Multnomah County, home to the city of Portland.
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
Sep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as …
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
Nov 19, 2024 · I n 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started rolling out the first JPay tablets. The JP5s look more or less like clunky versions of what people in the free world probably picture when they think of tablets, but any resemblance is superficial.
DEA Judge Blocks Veterans Group From Marijuana Rescheduling …
Nov 19, 2024 · A Drug Enforcement Administration judge has rejected a veterans group’s petition to participate in an upcoming hearing on the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal, which the organization called a “travesty of justice” that excludes key voices that would be affected by the potential policy change.. The Veterans Action Council (VAC) was among numerous stakeholders that ...
Smoking in Prisons Has Changed. Why Are We Denied Lung …
Dec 20, 2023 · A talking point often circulated in harm reduction is that the moment someone is released from incarceration, their risk of dying from opioid-involved overdose goes up by an extremely large percentage. There’s a parallel phenomenon for tobacco-related deaths. Incarceration is associated with precipitously increased cancer risk, lung cancer in particular.
One Drug Dominates Our Prison's Supply. We Don't Know What It …
Apr 27, 2022 · D uring the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance abuse” classes and support groups, many of which have still not resumed. O ur yard access was limited, our phone time reduced. Our visits with loved ones turned into partitioned visits with masks on, each prisoner’s 45 visitation hours each month cut down to six.
Will Indonesia, a Key Tobacco Control Outlier, Keep Vaping Legal?
Nov 22, 2024 · I f Indonesia was already frowned upon by the World Health Organization (WHO) and tobacco control groups for its high and rising smoking rate, it sealed that outlier status in 2018. That’s when the country became one of the first in Asia, and in the Global South, to recognize vaping as a legitimate alternative to combustible tobacco.
Documents Show BC Scrapped OPC Plan at Hospitals Where Pop …
Nov 22, 2024 · O n November 18, the newly organized group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy set up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds outside at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Regional General Hospital in Nanaimo. Both tents, which planned short-term runs that have now concluded, were immediately approached by private security officers, but were allowed to relocate to the sidewalk and ...