Intersections + Injustice
Prison Didn’t Rehabilitate Me, But Using Meth in Prison Did
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, ...
Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment
In the 1950s, John Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...
Gov. Candidate’s Sinister Plan to Ship Unhoused People Out of CA Cities
Make no bones about it, many housed people in California are resentful of the ...
Why “Drug-Induced Homicide” Doesn’t Have to be Prosecuted
Over the past five years, five more states have passed drug-induced homicide (DIH) statutes, ...
Why Allowing Only Prison-Issue Cell Phones Hurts Our Reentry Prospects
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is no longer allowing prisoners on work release ...
Judge Orders County to Offer OUD Meds to All Jailed Patients, in US First
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for ...
Traumatized Veterans Who Use Drugs Left to Suffer in Prison
About seven years ago, the Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated for the ...
Alabama Medicaid Under Fire for Denying Drug Users Hep C Cure
On May 9, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) and AIDS ...
Is the “Progressive Prosecutor” Movement on Its Last Legs?
Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a ...
By “Pro-Choice,” You Mean for Pregnant Drug Users Too, Right?
A lot of energy is being aimed at the legal arguments put forth in ...
