Intersections + Injustice

When a “Progressive” Prosecutor Ditches Reform to Grab More Power

When Raul Torréz was running for district attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2016, locals were surprised that a famous…

April 7, 2020

HIV Advocates Denounce Criminalization of Coronavirus “Spreaders”

The US HIV epidemic is on the decline. But as the coronavirus pandemic multiplies, it unfortunately seems as though governments…

April 7, 2020

Working From Home? So Are Engineers Running Trump’s Biometric Immigration Regime

For the US-Americans who still have a job, their homes are their new workplaces. Zoom is the new conference room;…

April 6, 2020

The Coronavirus Information Gap for Marginalized People

For those of us connected to technology, it’s hard to imagine not having continual information about the novel coronavirus pandemic.…

April 2, 2020

Court Reins In Social Workers’ Power in Drug-War Child Removals

Social workers are overlooked actors in the drug war, separating parents who use drugs from their children, often regardless of…

April 2, 2020

We Should Be Vigilant Against Attacks on the Supreme Court’s Burrage Ruling

Marcus Andrew Burrage was once a small-town guy from rural Iowa who sold another man heroin. As is typical of…

April 1, 2020

Caged People Expected to Keep Calm and Carry On Amid COVID-19

Jails and prisons are the next “country” to get COVID-­19, with the infection timeline trailing  America’s. It will be a…

April 1, 2020

San Antonio’s War on Street-Level Sex Workers

On a late August afternoon, a woman with shoulder-length brown hair asked a passing driver on the west side of…

March 31, 2020

COVID-19 Is Especially Devastating for Black and Brown Americans

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its accompanying economic downturn is disproportionately affecting Black and Brown people in the US…

March 26, 2020

“Ticking Time Bombs”—Congressmembers Urge Releases From Federal Prisons

Members of Congress are joining criminal justice reform advocates to demand that some people currently in prisons be released to…

March 25, 2020