Rights Activists Use Bitcoin to Prevent Incarceration of Victimless Criminal Offenders in New Hampshire
Rights Brigade, a New Hampshire-based rights group, is using a Bitcoin-fueled approach to activism to prevent victimless crime culprits from going to jail. The purpose of its Jury Nullification Outreach Campaign is to educate Jurors about their rights so that they could avoid sending innocent people to prison. Statistics show that 86 percent of Americans go to jail for victimless crimes like substance use and public order disturbance. It is tough to understand why people are incarcerated for hurting no one but themselves. Cointelegraph spoke to Joel Valenzuela the founder of the Rights....
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