The power to commute prison sentences is rarely exercised at the state level. Anthony Papa's newest memoir makes an implicit case for it to be used much more often.
Fed by poverty and social inequality and fueled by the drug war and the profits to be made, novel forms of criminality are emerging in Latin America. Two reporters and a novelist try to understand.
Medical marijuana is seeing action at statehouses in the US and in foreign capitals. (wikimedia.org)
Medical marijuana bills get filed not only in Iowa, but also Australia and Greece, a new poll shows enlightened drug policy attitudes among Maine voters, Republican US senators hold competing events for and against sentencing reform legislation, and more.