The $2 Field Drug Test That Sends Thousands of Innocent People to Jail

‘Tens of thousands have been convicted and served time—even earning the black mark of a felony—for crimes they likely didn’t commit, a recent report found, because the cases against them relied on horribly unreliable field drug test kits.
So prone to errors are the tests, courts won’t allow their submission as evidence. However, their continued use by law enforcement—coupled with a 90 percent rate at which drug cases are resolved through equally dubious plea deals—needlessly ruins thousands of lives.’
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