Commentary By Gary Kopycinski If you don’t like a story on eNews Park Forest, don’t call the Village of Park Forest! Look, folks. eNews Park Forest, Inc., is an independently owned news media organization. eNews Park Forest is certainly not a government-published, or even Village of Park Forest-endorsed news Web[Read More…]
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What a Week for Drug Policy Reform!
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2013. Received the note below today from Ethan Nadelmann, the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) outlining all the groundbreaking events that occurred this week in the drug policy reform movement. In addition to the events outlined by Ethan, there were a couple of other notable[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Attorney General Eric Holder Issues Major Sentencing Changes, Begins to Question War on Drugs
Bi-partisan Support Grows In Congress for Overhauling U.S. Drug Laws SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. In a speech to the American Bar Association today Attorney General Eric Holder announced major federal sentencing changes, including dropping the use of mandatory minimum sentencing in certain drug cases, expediting the release of certain nonviolent[Read More…]
ACLU: Stop and Frisk Found Unconstitutional
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. Today in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal judge ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices are unconstitutional. Ezekiel Edwards, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Criminal Law Reform Project, said, “The ACLU celebrates today’s decision by Federal Justice Shira Scheindlin[Read More…]
Medical Marijuana Advocates Welcome U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Sentencing Reform
Advocates urge Obama to release ill medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval and re-sentence numerous others San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–August6 12, 2013. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech today to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in which he outlined a new sentencing and enforcement strategy as America[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on DOJ Plans to Reduce Non-Violent Drug Sentences
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. Laura W. Murphy, director of American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, responded to Attorney General Eric Holder’s proposed policy to reverse the growth of the federal prison population in advance of a speech today at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting: “Today, the attorney general is[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on President Obama’s Proposed Surveillance Reforms
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2013. American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero responded to President Obama’s four recommendations to reform the government’s surveillance policies and programs made at a press conference today with the following statement: “While the initial reforms outlined by the president are a necessary and welcome first[Read More…]
FCC Approves Cap on Skyrocketing Prison Phone Rates
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2013. The Federal Communications Commission today approved rules to bring down exorbitant prison phone rates. Previously an unregulated part of the phone industry, prison calling costs have reached as high as $20 for a 15-minute call in some states. Beginning immediately, the FCC will cap rates at 25[Read More…]
Will Washington Post Sale Help End Marijuana Prohibition?
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 7, 2013. By Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director I jumped into a cab Monday afternoon at the airport at the top of the hour, when the all-news radio station led with an almost hysterical-in-tone news flash of the Washington Post being sold to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. While[Read More…]
Center for American Progress’ Julia Gordon on the President’s Plan for Strengthening the Nation’s Housing Market
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2013. For the first time since early 2011, President Barack Obama today outlined his agenda for strengthening the nation’s housing market and laid out a plan for the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The president endorsed moving toward an explicitly priced, catastrophic government backstop, with[Read More…]
