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At Ohio prison called nation’s worst COVID hotspot by NY Times,...

April 27, 2020 – I am currently incarcerated at the Marion Correctional Institution located in Marion, Ohio, where here inside we have one of the worst situations with COVID-19, and Marion County is ranked second in the nation for infections per 100,000 people.

Obama’s drug war

Among the very few people celebrating our country’s fiscal crisis are criminal justice reformers. Bill Piper of Drug Policy Alliance says, “Next year is probably an unprecedented opportunity to defund the federal drug war.” But colorblind cost-benefit approaches leave intact the racial attitudes, stereotypes and anxieties that gave rise to the system in the first place.