UK. The Jamaica Deportations Reveal the Racial Injustice of the UK's Drug Laws
UK. The Jamaica Deportations Reveal the Racial Injustice of the UK's Drug Laws
Rhetorically, drug policy is objective and indiscriminate. Practically, it is quite the opposite. As the recent deportations over minor drug offences make clear, the drug war produces profoundly different outcomes depending on race.
Last week, 17 people were deported to Jamaica by the Government for being “serious foreign national offenders”. The Home Office has refused to release a breakdown of the crimes they committed, but at least four of those on board were condemned to a life away from their family and friends for minor drug convictions. (TalkingDrugs, UK, 24.02.2020)
https://www.talkingdrugs.org/the-jamaica-deportations-reveal-the-racial-injustice-of-the-uks-drug-laws