Stories by Anthony Papa
Anthony Papa, author of 15 To Life: How I Painted My Way To Freedom, is a communications specialist for the Drug Policy Alliance.
When you look in the mirror you will think of your crime and how you wound up in prison. You will re-live your crime over and over.
Posted on Mar 16, 2009
Drug addiction shouldn't be a crime -- the real crime would be if reform of New York's draconian drug laws were stymied yet again.
Posted on Mar 5, 2009
Exercising the right to vote is important part of prisoner rehabilitation, but over 5 million convicted felons are barred from doing so.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008
The Drug Policy Alliance's re:FORM art auction benefit marries art with tackling the ridiculous "war on drugs."
Posted on Aug 21, 2008
Our federal government's zero-tolerance anti-drug crusade reached a new low in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
Hamilton was lucky enough to be able to afford treatment and get access right away. Most people cannot afford it.
Posted on Jul 17, 2008
Why Colombia's top drug lord may get off easier than small-time offenders in the U.S.
Posted on Sep 27, 2007
It is time to treat addiction for what it is, a medical problem, not a criminal one -- even for celebrities who rely on rehab clinics to bail them out and continue driving down that road to oblivion.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007
Sure, it would be nice to give Limbaugh a taste of his own medicine, but nobody deserves to serve time for a nonviolent drug offense.
Posted on May 3, 2006
The drug war, and the hard-nosed zealots who wage it, have reached new lows in Massachusetts.
Posted on Apr 14, 2006
New York's drug laws ensure that the privileged and connected receive leniency for the same offenses that send thousands of blacks and Latinos to prison.
Posted on Mar 29, 2006
A unique benefit art exhibit aims to help stop the madness of the war on drugs.
Posted on Mar 15, 2005
A victim of New York's Rockefeller drug laws recalls life as a prisoner, an activist and an artist.
Posted on Feb 7, 2005
Despite a recent attempt at reform, the infamous Rockefeller Drugs Laws of New York live on untouched and as dangerous as ever.
Posted on Jun 10, 2004
The alliance forged between families of the Argentinean disappeared and the families of people imprisoned under Rockefeller drug laws is not as strange as it would first appear.
Posted on Mar 24, 2004
The draconian law hits a milestone as activists continue to hope for much needed reform.
Posted on May 6, 2003
A victim of the Rockefeller drug laws talks about his experience
in prison for a nonviolent drug charge and the possibility
of reform.
Posted on Aug 7, 2002
