MPP Blog » jail http://blog.mpp.org Marijuana Policy Project Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:48:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Woman Dies in Jail While Serving Two and a Half Weeks For Marijuana Possession http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/woman-dies-in-jail-while-serving-two-and-a-half-weeks-for-marijuana-possession/06242009/ http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/woman-dies-in-jail-while-serving-two-and-a-half-weeks-for-marijuana-possession/06242009/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:54:20 +0000 Bruce Mirken http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1026

From time to time drug warriors tell us that no one goes to jail for marijuana possession. Tell that to Cynthia Prude, whose daughter Theresa died in a Houston, Texas jail over the weekend while serving a two and one-half week jail sentence for marijuana possession.

Thus far, officials aren’t revealing the circumstances or the cause of death, but this isn’t the first time someone has died serving a short jail sentence for marijuana possession. In September 2004, quadriplegic Jonathan Magbie — who used marijuana to relieve the chronic pain lingering from the childhood accident that left him paralyzed — died in the Washington, D.C., jail while serving a 10-day sentence for marijuana possession.

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