Christy Perez & Kastalia Medrano

Christy is a writer and advocate interested in prison/criminal justice reform, LGBTQ rights, harm reduction and government/cultural criticism. She has studied history/theology with the Third Order of Carmelites and completed degrees in Systematic Theology. She is currently studying law. You can read her other Filter writing here.

Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at half a dozen mainstream digital media outlets and would not recommend the drug coverage at any of them. For a while she was a syringe program peer worker in NYC, where she did outreach hep C testing and navigated participants through treatment. You can read her other Filter writing here.

Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail

[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about everyone who makes it out of…

November 6, 2024

Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens upon entry into the Georgia Department…

October 31, 2024

Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of unfortunate tendency some people just can't…

October 23, 2024