Data on driver licensing, DWI arrests, crashes, and fatalities in the State of North Carolina from the mid-70s to the mid-80s are analyzed to examine trends in drinking and driving by women. Findings presented are based on rates per licensed driver. Results suggest that more women are ...
Jail Stay and Release From 2015 to 2018, data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicated that people who were arrested had a mean number of 1.456 arrests annually, with 73.9% arrested only once; 10% of these people were rearrested the next year.23 In 2019, 7 091 89...
As the war on cannabis continues in most U.S. states, one brave North Carolinian who openly grows his own -- and broadcasts this fact publicly -- has intentionally taken the fall in a bold move that could be the spark that eventually ends cannabis prohibition in the so-called "Bible Bel...
This contributed to a 37% rise in drug arrests. [Pictured: Interior of a prison.] 1985: Heath v. Alabama Jeffrey Reed // Wikimedia Commons 1985: Heath v. Alabama Alabama resident Larry Gene Heath in 1981 hired a pair of hitmen to kill his pregnant wife. The two men kidnapped her and...
2 Many people discharged from jail are readmitted in the same year. Given that arrest counts have been virtually identical to jail admission counts,7 dividing annual admissions by annual arrests per person arrested approximates the number of people jailed annually. The National Survey on Drug Use ...