Asian club replete with strongmen welcomes ‘Duterte Harry’
By JIM GOMEZ As bodies continue to pile up in his war on illegal drugs, the Philippine president is making waves at his first summit of the Association of Southeast…
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Give drug felons food stamps, many states now say
By GRANT SCHULTE and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Nebraska is desperate to stop the runaway growth of its prison population, but doing so depends a lot on people like Ronald Tillman. Tillman,…
Heroin overdose antidote offers hope for vulnerable inmates
By SADIE GURMAN When he was a teenager, Lee Gonzales could not save his uncle from a heroin overdose. Now he worries that the same drug could kill him after…
Only On AP: Airmen at nuke base probed for illegal drug use
By ROBERT BURNS The Air Force is investigating about a dozen airmen at a nuclear missile base for alleged use of illegal drugs, in some cases possibly including cocaine, defense…
Poor offenders pay high price when probation turns on profit
By ADAM GELLER and SHARON COHEN Tennessee (AP) — Outside the $200-a-week motel room that Steven Gibbs and his family call home, the afternoon sun sparkled. Inside, though, he had…
Medical examiner: Water, drugs led to Bobbi Kristina’s death
Bobbi Kristina Brown suffered brain damage when her face became immersed in water while she was intoxicated with marijuana, morphine and other drugs, but investigators could not determine if her…
Pope warns against devil in hardscrabble Mexico City suburb
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered Sunday for the biggest event of Pope Francis’ five-day trip to Mexico, a Mass in the capital’s crime-ridden suburb of Ecatepec, where drug violence,…
52 dead, 12 injured in riot at northern Mexico prison
By PORFIRIO IBARRA and MARK STEVENSON A brutal fight between rival factions killed 52 inmates and injured 12 at a prison in northern Mexico on Thursday, the state governor said.…