Overcriminalization
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The Campaign to End Overcriminalization in America is a project of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers @NACDL. nacdl.org/overcrim
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28-02-2013 17:26:46
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Pressure Mounts Against HIV Criminalization as Prosecutions Continue: Roughly 30 states still have some form of HIV criminalization law or sentencing enhancement on the books. Advocates say it’s long past time for change. Adam Rhodes The Appeal buff.ly/3eVt6Rq
How American Public Spaces Became So Criminalized—and How We Can Win Them Back The Appeal buff.ly/3UrWjDA
Data obtained by The Appeal show nearly 2,000 people in Mississippi and Louisiana are serving long—and sometimes life—sentences after they were labeled 'habitual offenders.' But most are behind bars for small crimes like drug possession. Tana Ganeva buff.ly/3xXfGe8
Mississippi activists seek to decriminalize HIV and reduce stigma Mx Issippi MSPublicBroadcasting buff.ly/3M2ZNsH
Tennessee bill could criminalize some drag show performances Melissa Brown Angele Latham Tennessean buff.ly/3WZrnfi
Court hears arguments on Alabama trans youth treatment ban Kim Chandler The Associated Press buff.ly/3Vf8BPj
Another attempt to criminalize homelessness Okla City Free Press buff.ly/3ESJkoZ
An 82-year-old didn’t pay her $77 trash bill. Police arrested her. Praveena Somasundaram The Washington Post buff.ly/3UwVAzY
Opinion by Thomas Berry and Nicholas DeBenedetto for USA TODAY: Did you hear the one about 2 guys who told jokes about the cops? They landed in jail. Cato Institute buff.ly/3iyYV4w
Bill to criminalize drag shows advances in North Dakota The Associated Press buff.ly/3DqJq5W
Billy Porter and Malcolm Kenyatta: New Pa. law criminalizes HIV. Get rid of it. The Philadelphia Inquirer buff.ly/3ZbiS0Y