Intersections + Injustice
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
Psychedelic-Climate Week Launches in NYC: What Are the Connections?
Psychedelic-Climate Week launched in Manhattan on September 17. Timed to run alongside the annual ...
Trans Health Care Requires You to Be “Sick.” In Prison, You Can Work That.
On September 17, a federal judge halted the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) ban ...
Prisons Crush Almost All LGBTQ+ Organizing. Our Community Survives.
My name is Tavaria, but people call me Varia, T, Mama T or Queen. ...
In Defense of Contraband Cell Phones
As a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison system, each day was a ...
For Black and Brown Communities, the Overdose Crisis Is Still Escalating
This International Overdose Awareness Day, VOCAL-US state chapters—VOCAL-NY, VOCAL-TX and VOCAL-KY—are taking direct action ...
Police Shootings in Rural Areas Are Common, But Much Less Visible
Ask the average news consumer to think of “police shooting” and the names most ...
Veterans in Prison, Cut Off From Support, Try to Make It on Their Own
C*, a 39-year-old Army veteran, struggled to adjust to daily life after coming home ...
The Casualties of the “Passive Drug Exposure” Myth
In early August, 11 New York State corrections officers (COs) were at the scene ...
Harm Reduction Community’s Diverse Efforts to Raise DULF Defense Funds
Since Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) cofounders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were charged ...
