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Topic: War on Drugs

Public Health is a Strategy for Abolition: Fighting for Healthy and Safe Communities

A toolkit on the “Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue" policy statement made in 2018 by the...

Alabama’s War on Marijuana: Assessing the Fiscal and Human Toll of Criminalization

Police in Alabama made 2,351 arrests for marijuana possession in 2016. This study analyzed demographic data about the people arrested,...

Decriminalizing Survival: Policy Platform and Polling on the Decriminalization of Sex Work

This report briefly contextualizes the issue of decriminalizing sex work, discusses how this is a part of effective anti-trafficking policy,...

Juvenile Justice in Illinois: A Data Snapshot (2014)

This report offers data about juvenile justice specific to Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago, to analyze ways in which the...

This is Our Home: Scars of Stop-and-Frisk

This video short shows the process of "critical mapping" used to represent the cumulative and uneven impact of hot spot...

Mariame Kaba on Moving Past Punishment

If we want a just and humane world, we must create one in which apparatuses of oppression are no longer...

Blueprint for a Safer and More Just America

This blueprint, developed by TJC’s attorneys and criminal justice policy experts, outlines concrete steps to address the country’s mass incarceration...

Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment

A collection of written and audio resources around various topics related to policing, prisons, and criminal justice reform and abolition....

Reform/Transform: An Investigation of Policing in 12 Cities

Over the course of 2019, Local Progress engaged local elected officials and community leaders in a range of communities to...