Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, will pay $300 million plus 4 percent interest to settle Department of Justice allegations…
Vietnam has a big-time smoking problem. A huge proportion of men, particularly—44.3 percent, by one estimate—smoke cigarettes. Smoking kills more…
Vermont legislators are reviewing a wide-ranging prison equity bill that, if enacted, would make the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC)…
Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled defendants, a move being heralded as…
Harm reduction providers and other community groups are in chaos they await updates on the fate of withdrawn grant funding…
As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years since British Columbia declared the overdose…
Under a proposed bill, Florida would no longer allow officer misconduct complaints to be filed anonymously—requiring that they be signed…
Rehab can serve a lot of purposes other than abstinence. For some people the goal is a tolerance break, or…
A proposal advancing in the Texas legislature would authorize syringe service program (SSP) pilots in a total of seven counties,…
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table with a dais in front of…