Intersections + Injustice
Tennessee Prison Guards Want to Wear Body Cams. Prisoners Want That, Too.
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn ...
The Kingpin Effect: Violence From “El Mencho” Killing Far From Over
Violence erupted across Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the February 22 killing of ...
Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole
In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike ...
Oklahoma Weighs “Repeat Offender” Law for Drug Use During Pregnancy
Oklahoma is considering a bill that would increase the state’s authority to intervene when ...
Pressured by Fentanyl Deaths, County Coroner Laws Evolve in Weird Ways
Legislators in Indiana have unanimously advanced a bill that proposes an unusual solution to ...
SF Advances RESET Sobering Center, Over Concerns of Unlawful Detention
San Francisco is moving forward with plans to open a controversial sobering center, despite ...
When Prisons Ban Visitors With Felony Records, Everybody Loses
On August 29, 2020—a date I had been counting down to for 10 years—I ...
Audit: Widespread Failures in Federal Prisons’ Use of Halfway House System
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past ...
Already Killing People, ICE to Scale Up With Warehouse Detention
“No puedo respirar!” Geraldo Lunas Campos yelled as guards pinned him down. I can’t ...
After “Iryna’s Law,” Behavioral Crisis Response in NC Grows More Carceral
On February 5, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein (D) signed an executive order titled ...
