Fentanyl Smuggling and the Failure of a Militarized War on Drugs

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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 6:30pm to 7:00pm
Sarah Mehta, Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU
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Christopher Uggen, PhD, Regents Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Fentanyl Smuggling and the Failure of a Militarized War on Drugs.

The Washington Office on Latin America recently hosted a group of experts in a discussion entitled Responding Effectively to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis: Evidence from the Border and Beyond. We hear from Sanho Tree, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of its Drug Policy Project; Sarah Mehta, Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU; and Maritza Perez Medina, Director of Federal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance.

Plus, The Sentencing Project has released a new report entitled Locked Out 2024: Four Million Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. We hear from one of the report’s co-authors, Christopher Uggen, PhD, Regents Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

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