Intersections + Injustice

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

In Brazil, New Era of Private Prisons as Feds Auction Contracts to Build Them

On October 6 in Rio Grande do Sul, the government of Brazil held the first auction for a public-private partnership…

October 26, 2023

Texas’s “Drug-Busting” Prisons Lockdown Will Only Harm Us

From September 6 to October 16, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) implemented a “systemwide lockdown and comprehensive search”…

October 26, 2023

DOJ Trenton Police Investigation Seeks Public Input at First Virtual Forum

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking community members to weigh in on its investigation into systemic abuses of power…

October 23, 2023

WV Governor, Chief of Staff Fighting Subpoena for Jail Civil Rights Suit

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) is fighting a deposition that would require him to testify in October 24 in…

October 20, 2023

Do These Sex Offender Employment Restrictions Make Sense to Anyone?

In the month since I was released from Georgia Department of Corrections custody, I’ve been offered four different jobs. I…

October 19, 2023

Selling Meth Sent Him to Prison. It Also Saved His Life.

Louis Bell was a type of person we typically didn’t encounter in our Tennessee prison. A middle-aged white man with…

October 18, 2023

Trying to Make Friends as an Adult, After an Adult Life Spent in Prison

The other day I was in Walmart when a little girl, maybe 8 or so, struck up a conversation. Her…

October 13, 2023

New York City Has Days to Agree On Plan to Combat Rikers Abuses

A federal judge is demanding that New York City take rapid action over conditions in its Rikers Island jail complex.…

October 13, 2023

In WA Prisons, Cultural Groups Build Community. DOC Wants to Erase Us.

Incarceration in the United States has long been used to strip cultural identities from people of color. Through the centuries,…

October 11, 2023