Intersections + Injustice
“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design
Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States ...
Family Demands Justice for D’Vontaye Mitchell, Killed in Milwaukee
D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man, died after being pinned to the ground by hotel ...
I Know ID Verification Is Anti-Trans, But at Least Let Me File My Taxes
In the middle of the 13 years I spent incarcerated, there was a brief ...
How Prison Tobacco Bans Created a Drug Market No One Wanted
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this story were published earlier in July.] Back ...
BC Lawsuit Highlights Harms of Opioid Prescribing Crackdown
A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors ...
“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched
At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a ...
Feds Have Deported Over 500,000 People for Drugs Since 2002
The federal government has deported hundreds of thousands of people over drug convictions in ...
NIDA Leadership Calls for “All Three” OUD Medications in Prisons and Jails
A top federal drug official is calling for the government to move “away from ...
What Options Does the Sex Offender Registry Leave Us, If Not Sex Work?
They say that time is money, but if that’s true then mine doesn’t seem ...
How Prison Smoking Bans Created a Health Crisis
When I first entered Washington State Department of Corrections custody in 1995, the currency ...
