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Passed the House of Representatives on April 1, 2022 The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act , also known as the MORE Act , is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis , including the ...
On Monday, "a panel of federal judges…largely upheld Idaho's 'abortion trafficking' law, a measure passed in the 2023 legislative session meant to punish an adult who helps a minor seek an ...
North Carolina lawmakers passed new laws last year and this year. Several took effect on July 1, including ones related to elections, trees around billboards and the N.C. High School Athletic ...
Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [9] the overall incarceration rate in the U.S. was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [14] England and Wales was 146 per 100,000 in 2023, [15] and Australia was 158 per 100,000 in 2022. [16]
The new North Carolina laws taking effect on Thursday include two dealing with domestic ... very happy to have played a part in getting Jordan’s Law heard by the House, passed by the House ...
In 1901, as demand for inmate labor dwindled from the private sector, the state legislature passed the Good Roads Policy, which legalized the use of inmate labor for the creation and maintenance of North Carolina roads. Horse drawn prison cages were moved from place to place to move the inmate labor force to areas needed for the road projects. [3]
Louisiana State Penitentiary is the location of the State of Louisiana's male death row and execution chamber. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since 2010, and no involuntary executions since 2002.
The new law was modified in Senate Bill 626, “Modify Human Trafficking and Rioting Laws,” which also adds “patronizes, solicits” to the list of what describes a human trafficking crime.