Intersections + Injustice

Pregnancy in Withdrawal: Methadone Clinic Tore My Family Apart

In the endless hallway of the NICU, nurses shuffled from door to door. Yellow-toned ceiling lights flickered. My grandmother kept…

December 7, 2023

WA Prisons Still Using Drug Test Kits at Center of False-Positives Lawsuit

Sabastian Johnson had been unsuccessfully trying to get copies of a legal document related to his case into Washington Corrections…

December 4, 2023

St. Louis Jail Now Tracking Overdoses, Still Blocking Oversight Board

A St. Louis city jail is reportedly now tracking overdoses among incarcerated people, after local media forced its hand. But…

December 1, 2023

The Nightmare of Prison Suicide Watch, Where Watching Is All We Do

Imagine looking through a window into a room at someone who’s been forcibly taken from their home, stripped naked and…

November 20, 2023

How I Was Forced to Go Through Testosterone Withdrawal

When I moved to Italy for school in August 2022, I brought a three-month supply of testosterone, syringes and needles—the…

November 13, 2023

The Right to Consensual Sex—and Condoms—in Prison

Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a waiting list for job placement for…

November 8, 2023

Mass Action Planned Against Atlanta “Cop City,” as Construction Continues

Activists are calling for mass civil disobedience this month to “block Cop City” in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s the latest move…

November 7, 2023

Boston Clears Tent Encampment at Mass and Cass

On November 1 Boston city workers began evicting unhoused residents from an encampment in an area called “Mass and Cass,”…

November 3, 2023

Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission

In the mid-'90s at Washington State Penitentiary, a corrections officer (CO) and I had been yelling at each other for…

November 2, 2023

Hospital Addiction Consult Teams Seek to Fight Stigma, Meet Needs

As people continue to suffer with the many preventable side effects of not having a safe drug supply, Addiction Consult…

November 2, 2023