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California's Prop. 5 Could Change the Course of America's Drug War

By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. Posted November 1, 2008.


Californians have chance with the NORA initiative to reject decades of fear mongering and try alternatives to jail for drug abuse.

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Silja J.A. Talvi is an investigative journalist and the author of Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System (Seal Press: 2007). Her work has already appeared in many book anthologies, including It's So You (Seal Press, 2007), Prison Nation (Routledge: 2005), Prison Profiteers (The New Press: 2008), and Body Outlaws (Seal Press: 2004). She is a senior editor at In These Times.

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