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Known as "stash house" schemes and used by federal agents, the tool to lure people into crimes has been widely discredited for disproportionately targeting Black men for severe mandatory sentences.
This Viewpoint reviews the social and economic drivers of declines in longevity in the US, especially among lower socioeconomic status groups, and proposes poli
A quarter century ago, drug violence was exploding. The government’s response was Draconian punishment. Wilfredo Perez, who was selling kilograms of cocaine from an auto repair shop on Hartford’s south side, became an example of how criminal justice was dispensed.His case now illustrates how attitudes toward crime and punishment have changed.
When he was sentenced to prison on Aug. 17, 1999, Carl Anthony Knight had every reason to believe he would die an inmate. Knight was convicted under the federal kingpin statute for leading the largest crack cocaine ring to operate in Erie up to that time. He and his associates were accused of smuggling crack weighing a total of 458 pounds — 208 kilograms — from New York City to Erie from 1993 to 1997. The total value of the drugs at the time: $20.8 million. Knight was the first person in Erie to be found guilty as a drug kingpin. A jury at the federal courthouse on Perry Square con...
President Donald Trump may be best remembered for his use of Twitter as a bully pulpit to stoke controversy or browbeat opponents, but the noise his tweets generated often distracted from the big policy changes he made over his four-year term. During his rollercoaster presidency, the focus was often on what Trump was saying and ...