About Ameer Mabjish

Compassion Project

It began with our country’s most recent heroin epidemic, which created an explosion in the criminal justice system of heroin-addicted people charged with crimes. It began with the repeated argument that fell on the deaf ears of many prosecutors and judges for years: We cannot incarcerate our way out of drug addiction. It began with the daily frustration of fighting against incarceration and harsher penalties for people charged with crimes directly related to untreated substance abuse. It …