Intersections + Injustice

Executions for Drug Convictions Surged in 2021. Most Are Kept Secret.

At least 131 people were executed for drug convictions in 2021, according to a new report from Harm Reduction International…

March 15, 2022

Feds’ Survey Reveals Which Industries Drug-Test Employees the Most

A new federal labor report indicates that drug testing rates at US workplaces have fallen considerably over the past quarter-century,…

March 14, 2022

There Has to Be a Better Way to Free Methadone

I had a gut feeling there would be gaslighting, but I didn’t think it would start the minute Dr. Alan…

March 9, 2022

Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a federal life sentence in 2015. But…

March 9, 2022

Pressure on Massachusetts to Ban Building of New Jails and Prisons

Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to rule out building any new jails…

March 8, 2022

Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations

Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout started the Oakland-based nonprofit For The…

March 3, 2022

Chicago Mayor Wants to Expand Civil Asset Forfeiture to “Gang Activity”

Chicago City Council will soon vote on a controversial ordinance to use civil asset forfeiture against people with convictions believed…

March 1, 2022

In Maximum Security Prison, the System Works to Deny Us Transfers

Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga Correctional Facility. It's an isolated location…

March 1, 2022

Harm Reduction and Liberation for Black Trans Drug Users in Brazil

More transgender people are murdered in Brazil than any other country in the world. Though the government criminalized queer- and…

February 28, 2022

WA Prisons Expanded Gradual Reentry. COVID Is an Excuse to Block Us.

In 2018, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a Graduated Reentry (GRE) program, allowing eligible prisoners to serve…

February 25, 2022