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WBFO's Thomas O'Neil-White reports. As the Executive Director of PeacePrints Western New York, McEachon’s goal is to provide a link to services on the outside for people at the end of their journey through the state prison system. A system which overwhelming houses Black and Brown bodies. McEachon echoes many criminal justice reformers when she said former inmates are often ill-prepared to re-enter society after a lengthy prison sentence. “But what you know on the outside is a memory,” she said. “Because worlds change. Our world moves at a rapid, rapid-fire pace and in the facility, i...

WBFO's Thomas O'Neil-White reports. Ames Grawart is the Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School. He points to the hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars spent each year to maintain post-release supervision as an example wasteful spending. “At a simple, fiscal level, we know that it costs around $20,000 a year to incarcerate someone in New York State prisons,” he said. “By comparison, a year of parole supervision costs around $2,000.” Even though it is cheaper than prison, Grawert said whenever a parolee goes back to prison on a techni...

President Donald Trump’s term has come to a fateful end. Now, some are wondering what an America under Joe Biden’s administration will look like.

Infographic: Are Cannabis Stocks Poised To Light Up? By Felix Richter After the House passed the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act in December – paving the way for federal decriminalization of cannabis – and Democrats took control of the Senate in the Georgia runoffs, it looks like 2021 could be a big year for the cannabis industry. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 15 states and three territories have legalized adult-use of cannabis or stated their intent to do so, while another 36 states and four territories have greenli...

Westword: Do you have more confidence in recent federal cannabis bills like the Safe Banking Act or MORE Act now that Democrats control the Senate? Christian Sederberg: I'm optimistic about everything. The biggest challenge in the last several years has been that even once something gets out of the House, like what we saw with the MORE and Safe Banking Acts, it didn't have any chance of being put on the agenda in the Senate, because of the previous leadership. That's very deflating, and it's a hard road when Senate Majority Leader [Mitch] McConnell wouldn't let legislation coming from the H...