Media Fights for Access to Executions, But Not the Rest of the Prison System
In April, the Tennessee Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling that would allow journalists ...
Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor
On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled ...
Lifers Fall Through the Cracks of the Prison Security Classification System
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: ...
Banning Cigarettes, Threatening Vapes: A New UK Landscape
The United Kingdom’s government aims to create a “first smoke-free generation,” after its long-running ...
Former clinic director Janet Urdahl describes the system’s culture of cruetly, power imbalance and profit motives.
Filter sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction.
Participants in a vaping group, held at a pioneering New York syringe service program, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
People Who Vape Are Lab Rats, Says California “Public Health” Campaign
Clockwork Orange-like images show a sweating, terrified young man in a dark laboratory with a black metal contraption on his ...
Prison Can’t Be the New Nursing Home If It Isn’t Wheelchair-Accessible
Ralph*, one of the men incarcerated with me at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee, hasn’t showered in more than ...
Could Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Make a Comeback?
Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, was the sole remaining facility in the United States to offer aversion therapy for ...
