How to Fix a Drug ScandalWhat happens when two women tasked with securing tens of thousands of criminal convictions are separately found to have tampered with the evidence? And how can you fix a justice system that’s rotten to the core?, which is sparking huge conversations about addiction, cover-ups and racial justice onThe gripping true-crime story cuts to the core of a mass-scale criminal justice failure that has affected tens of thousands of inmates in the US state of Massachusetts.
In 2013, state drug lab chemist Sonja Farak was arrested for taking meth, crack cocaine, amphetamines, ketamine and LSD: the very drugs she was tasked with testing. Six months prior to Farak’s arrest, chemist Annie Dookhan was caught faking thousands of drug results and forging paperwork in order to supersize her productivity and impress her superiors.
Because prosecutors withheld Farak’s handwritten notes about her drug use and evidence tampering, defendants who could have challenged their convictions were prevented – in some cases for years – from moving forwards with their appeals.lays bare the devastating impact this had not only on the defendants themselves , but also the ripple effect on their families and loved ones.Gabrielle Union was told her hair was “too black” by America’s Got Talent bosses.