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Despite Voting Rights Reform, Many People With Felonies Excluded From NJ Primary

New Jersey held primary elections on July 7, including hotly contested Congressional races for seats held by Jeff Van Drew…

July 8, 2020

Dozens of Countries Exclude People on Drug Charges From COVID-19 Decarceration

Prisons are nearly universally recognized as petri dishes for the coronavirus. In an attempt to slow the spread, some countries…

July 7, 2020

Why an OASAS License for a Low-Threshold Bupe Provider Is So Significant

REACH—a harm reduction-oriented health center in Ithaca, New York that prescribes buprenorphine, among many other services—is about to get a…

July 7, 2020

Irish Harm Reduction Response to COVID-19 Saves Unhoused Drug Users’ Lives

Unhoused drug users in Dublin, Ireland almost entirely avoided projected COVID-19 deaths as a result of progressive changes in national…

July 6, 2020

Scrutinizing the Foster System’s Relationship With the War on Drugs

So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine, drug courts, to name just…

July 2, 2020

Canada Has Its Own Racist Structures to Dismantle

The focus of the world’s media can make it seem like racism and the “War on Drugs” are primarily United…

July 2, 2020

NYC Fails to #DefundNYPD—But Activists Are Just Getting Started

Although the battle to defund the police in New York City was set back by the June 30 approval of…

July 1, 2020

DA Felt It Unnecessary to Inform Public of a Virus-Infected Prosecutor in Court

Stephen Wagstaffe, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, said in 2014 that he has never made a decision…

July 1, 2020

How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police

Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to New York City. The Minneapolis City…

July 1, 2020

New Spike in Coronavirus Cases Could Further Worsen Overdose Crisis

As many US jurisdictions have eased pandemic restrictions, new coronavirus cases have been spiking again. At the same time, regions…

June 30, 2020