Hardline Oklahoma prosecutors have received bad news about their capacity to force people who use drugs into “therapeutic” courts. That…
It’s afternoon on the Monday after the Fourth of July. My daughters, ages five and six, sit perched on the…
One of the nation’s oldest involuntary commitment laws designed specifically to target people who use drugs is facing a court…
In St. Louis, Missouri—arguably the birthplace of the modern movement for Black lives—a city lawmaker has introduced a bill to…
New Jersey held primary elections on July 7, including hotly contested Congressional races for seats held by Jeff Van Drew…
Prisons are nearly universally recognized as petri dishes for the coronavirus. In an attempt to slow the spread, some countries…
So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine, drug courts, to name just…
The focus of the world’s media can make it seem like racism and the “War on Drugs” are primarily United…
Although the battle to defund the police in New York City was set back by the June 30 approval of…
Stephen Wagstaffe, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, said in 2014 that he has never made a decision…