California May Restore Voting Rights to Over 55,000 People With Felony Records
A ballot measure in California, Proposition 17, would restore voting rights to all residents ...
Our Movement Is Strongest When We Aim High—And Work in Current Reality
Criminal justice reform has made significant advances during my time in the movement. But ...
Filter Invites Applications for Our Drug War Journalism Diversity Fellowship
Since launching in September 2018, Filter has greatly expanded in scope and readership, establishing itself ...
Weirdly, Amy Coney Barrett’s Police-Accountability Record May Be Better Than RBG’s
On September 25, Amy Coney Barrett, a staunchly conservative judge for the Seventh Circuit ...
Māori Women Benefit From a Harm Reduction Approach to Smoking
Smoking rates among Indigenous peoples have remained stubbornly high around the world, despite stigmatizing ...
“A Perfect Example of Targeting”—Marijuana Injustice in Southeast Brooklyn
For two years in a row now, political efforts to legalize marijuana in the ...
Why Private Prisons Are Spending a Fortune on 2020 Republican Candidates
Private prisons are determined to make their voices heard in the 2020 election cycle. ...
Michigan’s New Marijuana-Conviction Expungement Law: Pros and Cons
On October 12, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed into law a series of ...
COVID and Vaping: A Perfect Storm of Misleading Science and Media
Seven months and more than a million deaths into the pandemic, scientists around the ...
Racial Justice and the Death Penalty at Stake in Ohio Prosecutor Election
After choosing in 2017 not to reindict a University of Cincinnati campus police officer ...
