In 2019, the nation's most diverse county narrowly missed a major opportunity to embrace sex work decriminalization. A little less…
When I got on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) about 16 years ago, my decision had nothing to do with wanting…
In September last year, the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit working for incarcerated people in California, sent a letter to…
State prisons' efforts to decarcerate during the COVID-19 crisis seem to have been eclipsed by those of county jails—despite more…
Rachael Rollins is undoubtedly an exciting prosecutor. When she announced during her 2018 campaign to become Boston’s next district attorney…
The brutal killing of Ahmaud Arbery, by a retired member of law enforcement and his son in Brunswick, Georgia on…
Like many others affected by the coronavirus crisis, Simon,* a 43-year-old Black man, was confined to a room with a…
Even before COVID-19 upended American social and economic life, mass incarceration was devastating communities nationwide. But with data suggesting that…
Court fines and fees unfairly perpetuate cycles of poverty for disadvantaged Americans, but that has not stopped many hundreds of…
New York City drug arrests hit historic lows in the weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo initiated the state's "shelter-in-place" policy…