A legal rights group is suing Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery over his lucrative program with a drug treatment firm that targets cannabis consumers and punishes impoverished people more than others.”The marijuana diversion program operated by TASC, Inc. and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office represents our two-tiered legal system at its worst,” said Civil Rights Corps lead attorney in the case, Dami Animashaun. “Wealthy people buy their way off diversion quickly, while poor people risk being expelled from the program and prosecuted for a felony solely because they cannot afford to pay.”The 40-page complaint (see below) asks the court to certification the case as a class action lawsuit, and award damages to the people allegedly harmed by Montgomery’s policies. The complaint details the stories of three of those people, but imply there are many more.According to Civil Rights Corps, Montgomery, the county, and TASC have been perpetrating a scheme that turns making payments into the most important part of a “drug treatment” program. The diversion program often keeps low-income defendants in the program for twice as long as wealthier defendants, threatening participants with felony prosecution for failing to make relatively small payments. Meanwhile, the prosecutor’s office and TASC rake in the millions.Each… Read full this story
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