Intersections + Injustice
Georgia Moves Backwards With New Forensic Mental Health Hospital
For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not ...
Commission to Look at Methadone Regs, But Don’t Hold Your Breath
A new National Methadone Access and Quality Commission has been created by the Foundation ...
Impending Parks Ban Looms Over Phoenix Harm Reduction Efforts
A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just ...
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 ...
