Timothy Brian Cole was 26 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of rape in a Lubbock, Texas, courtroom in 1986. At the time of the rape, he was a student at Texas Tech University – Texas Tech had an enrollment of approximately 22,000 students – About 500 were African-American. Timothy was one of the [...]
According to a recent article in The Texas Tribune, the state of Texas comes in third behind Illinois and New York in the number of exonerations in the United States since 1989. This is according to data compiled by Mother Jones. You should read the full Texas Tribune article. You should also read the story [...]
I recommend reading Drug War has grown “too big to fail” — Scott Henson’s July 4 post on his blog Grits for Breakfast. I found the following quite interesting: The National Drug Intelligence Center recently issued a report entitled “The Economic Impact of Illicit Drug Use on American Society.” According to their analysis, illicit drug [...]
In recent years, confiscating “drug money” has become an ever-increasing priority of the Texas Department of Public Safety. According to a recent two-part series in the Amarillo Globe-News, between January 1, 2005, and June 30, 2010, about $14.6 million in U.S. currency was seized by the Highway Patrol on the 178 mile stretch of Interstate-40 [...]
With an eye on the brutal drug wars in Mexico, Newsweek published a great report on the “never-ending war on drugs.” The report noted the futility of drug supply enforcement as a means to control drug availability in the United States. According to Robert Bonner, the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the [...]