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Category: Needless Victims (164 posts)

Law & Politics
April 16, 2013
MI Medical Marijuana Patient Refused Placement in Prison Medical Facility

MI Medical Marijuana Patient Refused Placement in Prison Medical Facility

53-year-old transplant patient Jerry Duval recently received a federal surrender order to serve out 10-year sentence Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received a Justice Department order to surrender to federal authorities on June 11th, to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence at the Federal  Read More »

Law & Politics
April 11, 2013
NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid

NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid

Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said Tuesday “For about 40 years, we’ve decided that [prison] is how we solve almost every problem, whether it’s homelessness or drug addiction, we’ve gotten to a place where black men in this country are three times more likely to be incarcerated than black men in South Africa during apartheid when they were the world’s leading [jailer].”