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Drugs, as anyone with more than a passing interest in global black markets knows, are big business. According to the United Nations World Drug Report of 2011, 210 million people use illicit drugs every year. That’s a huge market, and as we shall see, there are any number of criminals eager to capitalize on this demand. Join [...]

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$6.9 Billion – Cocaine — 1989 In 1989, the biggest bust in history yielded 20 tons of cocaine, which came out to a street value of about $7 billion, or five “doses” (whatever that means) for each person in the United States. Big time Mexican drug trafficker Rafael Munoz Talavera was about to make it [...]

JACKSON, Miss. –  A Mississippi judge is blocking the release of 21 inmates given pardons by former Gov. Haley Barbour, supporting the state attorney general’s contention that Barbour’s actions weren’t in compliance with the state’s constitutional requirements. Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood [...]

Though the overall prison population is on the decline, the incarceration rate for African-American men and women in federal and state prisons was much higher in 2010, when compared with the number of whites and Hispanics behind bars, according to a U.S. Justice Department report published in December. “There is no one thing that is [...]

  Most of us complain about laws when they affect us or one of our loved ones. Understanding the politics of how laws are made and changed is essential for all minorities whether your involved in the criminal justice system or not. At the very least you should be keeping up with the bills that [...]

Almost three years after taking office, President Barack Obama has issued his first commutation to a convict serving time in a federal prison. The White House announced Monday that Obama commuted the nearly 22-year prison sentence of Eugenia Jennings, 34, a mother of three from Alton, Ill. who pled guilty in 2000 to selling 13.9 [...]

In his last days in office, outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned four men convicted of murder, a state official said Monday. David Gatlin, Joseph Ozment, Charles Hooker and Anthony McCray received full pardons and were released at 1 p.m. Sunday, said Suzanne Singletary, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. All four were serving [...]