Intersections + Injustice

“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

The Criminal Justice System Struggles to Adapt to the Pandemic

Measures in response to the coronavirus are rapidly progressing in the US, with workplaces, restaurants, and public events being shuttered…

March 20, 2020

In the UK, Are We Rationing Who We Care About Amid COVID-19?

Viruses are great levelers. So it is with COVID-19, which has no regard for social status or affluence. We are…

March 18, 2020

Why Midwestern Farmers Are Facing a Suicide Crisis

Farm workers are increasingly dying of suicide, according to new research. Farmers are suffering the combined burdens of falling commodity…

March 17, 2020

Court Hits Back Against Politically Motivated Firings of Public Defenders

There has been a spate, in recent years, of public defenders speaking out against injustice, then getting in trouble for…

March 16, 2020

The Incarcerated Population Is Especially Vulnerable to Coronavirus

People held in jails and prisons throughout the US are at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19, thanks to crowded conditions,…

March 12, 2020

The Lessons of Chicago’s Disastrous “Crime Prediction” Experiment

In 2012, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) collected data on everyone arrested in the last four years, and used it…

March 12, 2020

Colorado Teen Could Face Decades in Prison—For Cannabis

Vaping-associated pulmonary illness reportedly contributed to 68 deaths through February 18, 2020. After an initial, misplaced drug scare around nicotine…

March 11, 2020

The Legacy of Northeast Philly’s “Redlining” Against Methadone Clinics

Protesting residents of the mostly white, working-class neighborhoods of Holmesburg and Mayfair in Northeast Philadelphia accepted back in 2013 that…

March 10, 2020

Worldwide, Executions for Drug-Law Violations Are Increasing Again

Ali Reza Madadpur was waiting outside a house in Iran in November 2011. He had come for his first day…

March 5, 2020