Intersections + Injustice
What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race
In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...
The Right Uses Wisconsin Parade Tragedy to Attack Bail Reform
After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, ...
Why the ACLU Is Taking On Wyoming’s Pretrial “24/7 Sobriety” Program
Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” ...
Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban Ends, Leaving Bitter Taste
The horribly misguided smoking and vaping ban in Philadelphia’s city-funded drug treatment programs, including ...
New Efforts to Make Top-Level Policy and Research Welcome Drug Users
As the oft-cited mantra “Nothing about us without us” suggests, the involvement of people ...
The Data Gatekeeper Spinning Pennsylvania’s Prisons Narrative
In 2017, at the American Society of Criminology’s annual conference in Philadelphia, then-President James ...
Women’s Voices Among Those Absent at the Global Tobacco Control COP
Global tobacco control is deeply political, divisive, and reflects the prevailing gendered and other ...
Legal Professors’ Lawsuit Spotlights Resistance to Prosecutor Accountability
A fight over law professors’ free speech rights shows just how far state bars ...
Exit of Draconian Fort Worth DA Will Leave Opening for Reform
Just a few years back, Tarrant County, Texas, which includes Fort Worth, was dubbed ...
We’ll Keep Denying Public Housing Over Marijuana Use, Insists Biden Administration
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says it is required to ...
