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IN THE NEWS

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What needs to change about how Cook County handles drug arrests?

By Andrea Guthmann, WBEZ Chicago | December 7, 2021

How the Drug War Dies

By Maia Szalavitz | March 21, 2022

Take it from me, a retired Chicago cop: CPD spends too much time arresting petty drug offenders

By David Franco, published in the Chicago Sun-Times | April 22, 2021

ARTICLES

Examining the Link Between Unintentional Overdose Death and Prior Criminal History in Illinois: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICIJA)

The costly toll of dead-end drug arrests: a Sun-Times / BGA special report

Jails Are Not Treatment Centers, Care Must Happen in the Community: Coalition to End Money Bond & Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice

Letter: Inmate Treatment for Substance Abuse Would Ease Recidivism: Commentary by Jen Nagel-Fischer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We Have to Find a Better Way to Deal With Low-Level Drug Crime: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board

House passes bill to reclassify small-amount drug possession as misdemeanor: Capitol News Illinois

Sun-Times, BGA Report Reveals Costly Toll of ‘Dead-End’ Drug Arrests: Acacia Hernandez, WTTW News

To Reduce Drug Crimes, Send People to Treatment Instead of Making Arrests: Commentary by Joel K. Johnson and Jac A. Charlier, Chicago Sun-Times

Putting an end to dead-end drug arrests is the right move: Commentary by Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board

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