COALINGA, Calif. — Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, baking in the 100-degree heat of the Central Valley, a former prison is in the midst of an unlikely second act.
The purchase also allowed their cannabis company, Evidence, and others that have bought shuttered prisons to come face to face with the lasting effects of the war on drugs, particularly on people of color, as they try to shape the role the industry will play in confronting that legacy. Dalton said he often thinks about the people who were held there before California voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016.
Aside from making the site a symbol of the impact of incarceration, Evidence donates part of every purchase to the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping nonviolent cannabis offenders get out of prison and have their records expunged. In 2020, over 350,000 people in the U.S. were arrested for “marijuana-related violations,” primarily in states where the plant remains illegal, according to the FBI.
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