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Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform The PBS News Hour has this great new and lengthy piece about marijuana expungement laws and practices under the headline "As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records cleared."  Regular readers know I have long been invested in these issues  (see my 2018 article, "Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices"), and I am especially pleased that folks at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center worked with folks at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center to create the national map found in the PBS piece and...

As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records clearedNation Updated on May 5, 2021 7:06 PM EDT — Published on May 3, 2021 5:58 PM EDT Michael has struggled with kidney disease since he was in his early 20s serving in the military. The high stress of the job ultimately put him in the hospital, and he was not able to return to the service due to his condition. The 37-year-old Virginia Beach resident, who requested his name be changed because of concerns about retaliation from future employ...

April 26, 2021 Three students in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with Harry Truman and Barry Goldwater scholarships. Cosimo Fabrizio ’22, is the winner of the Harry Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 toward graduate school for juniors committed to careers in public service. This year 62 scholars were selected from a pool of 845 candidates representing 328 colleges and universities. Cosimo Fabrizio ’22 Nikita Borisov ’22 and Jon Meinhardt ’22 were awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a national award for students pursuing careers in the natural sciences, ma...

Joe Ligon is pictured in 1963, 10 years into his prison sentence. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Ligon entered prison when Dwight Eisenhower was president. During the 68 years that he spent incarcerated in a half dozen penal institutions, the world outside moved on. At the one-day trial in 1953, Ligon and his co-defendants were referred to as “coloured.” At school, his special education classes were designated for the “orthogenically backward.” He was incarcerated in a facility named the Pennsylvania Institution for Defective Delinquents in the US, the inmates classified by court...

Joe Ligon, convicted in a stabbing, was 15 when he went to jail, but despite offers of parole, sought freedom on his terms.