Reinstating Common Sense: How driver’s licenses suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving are falling out of favor
Prison Policy Initiative
Dec 12, 2016

Currently, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington D.C. automatically suspend driver’s licenses for non-driving drug offenses. “These drug suspension laws are one of the most punitive and unnecessary side effects of the War on Drugs,” the Prison Policy Initiative. “The report, [“Reinstating Common Sense: How driver’s licenses suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving are falling out of favor”] finds that the burden of these suspensions fall most heavily on low-income people and people of color.”

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