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“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”

~ Albert Einstein

Author Abstract

J. K. Cook

J. K. Cook

Author

J.K. Cook is a 30 + year veteran nurse and mother of two who lives in Alabama. She completed her Associates Degree in Nursing in 2016 and her (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) BSN degree in 2017.

Although a law degree is not currently in her forecast, she is passionate about defending the injustices in our current judicial system. The majority of her nursing career has revolved around the mental health aspect of health care, including working at Limestone Correctional Facility for approximately eight years, in various jails across the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana for six years, and a number of other psychiatric facilities.

While navigating an often arduous and abstruse judicial system for approximately five years with her son, she became well-versed—from a mother’s, as well as an insider’s perspective—on how the American Judicial System currently operates.

Interesting FAQ’s
Listed below are interesting statistics and facts related to mental illness, incarceration, and the “war on drugs.”
More than $51,000,000,000
Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs.

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.drugpolicy.org ~

22
Number of states that have decriminalized or removed the threat of jail time for simple possession of small amounts of marijuana. Sadly, Alabama is not on this list and is pretty much guaranteed to be the last one added.

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.drugpolicy.org ~

1,488,707
Number of arrests in 2015 in the U.S. for drug law violations.

Number of these arrests that were for possession only: 1,249,025 (84 percent)

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.drugpolicy.org ~

8 (Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington)
Number of states that have approved legally taxing and regulating marijuana

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.drugpolicy.org ~

$46.7 billion
Tax revenue that drug legalization would yield annually, if currently-illegal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco.

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.drugpolicy.org ~

More than 50%
Over 50 percent of inmates currently in federal prison are there for drug offenses, according to an the Federal Bureau of Prisons. That percentage has risen fairly consistently over decades, all the way from 16 percent in 1970.

Courtesy of: ~ http://www.huffingtonpost.com ~