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What Kentucky, Mississippi Gubernatorial Results May Mean for Medicaid

Citizens in Kentucky and Mississippi voted in their gubernatorial elections November 5, in two contests that were pivotal to the…

November 6, 2019

A Mixed Election Night for Reform Prosecutors: The Key Results

November 5 saw a raft of important county-level prosector elections around the country, and most of the results are now…

November 6, 2019

Trump Wants War With Mexico’s So-Called Drug Cartels

Nine US citizens belonging to a Mormon community in Mexico were killed on November 4 by unknown gunmen. Just a…

November 5, 2019

The Cash Bail System Is an Abusive Anachronism

Even for the Trump era, it sounds like an extraordinary lapse in political decorum. At a University of Pittsburgh event…

November 5, 2019

Canadian Pharmacist Punished for Grassroots Naloxone Distribution

An Ontario regulatory organization for pharmacists is cracking down on a grassroots harm reductionist for his naloxone distribution efforts—even though…

November 4, 2019

Why Private Prisons Are at the Center of a Pennsylvania Prosecutor Race

The involvement of for-profit in managing jails and prisons in one Pennsylvania county could be turned upside down by a…

November 4, 2019

Marijuana Justice and Trump: Inside a DA Election in Rural Pennsylvania

Law enforcement in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a sprawling rural-to-suburban county and the home of Penn State's law school, has been…

October 31, 2019

Women Are Disproportionately Held in Jails Rather Than Prisons, Increasing Harms

More women are being held in local jails than in state prisons, according to a report released October 29 by…

October 31, 2019

Fentanyl Panic and Halloween Sadism Myths: A Ghoulish Combination

Frankenstein's monster had nothing on this: A New Jersey beach town prosecutor's office has been fusing together two damaging drug…

October 30, 2019

Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Expunge Millions of Cannabis Convictions Faster

Has Bernie Sanders been reading Filter? Last week we asked how far all the 2020 candidates—and Sanders in partfcular—will go…

October 30, 2019