Intersections + Injustice
Kentucky Challenge to “Casey’s Law” Strikes Against Involuntary Commitment
One of the nation’s oldest involuntary commitment laws designed specifically to target people who ...
St. Louis Is a Big Step Closer to Closing the Workhouse
In St. Louis, Missouri—arguably the birthplace of the modern movement for Black lives—a city ...
Despite Voting Rights Reform, Many People With Felonies Excluded From NJ Primary
New Jersey held primary elections on July 7, including hotly contested Congressional races for ...
Dozens of Countries Exclude People on Drug Charges From COVID-19 Decarceration
Prisons are nearly universally recognized as petri dishes for the coronavirus. In an attempt ...
Scrutinizing the Foster System’s Relationship With the War on Drugs
So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack ...
Canada Has Its Own Racist Structures to Dismantle
The focus of the world’s media can make it seem like racism and the ...
NYC Fails to #DefundNYPD—But Activists Are Just Getting Started
Although the battle to defund the police in New York City was set back ...
DA Felt It Unnecessary to Inform Public of a Virus-Infected Prosecutor in Court
Stephen Wagstaffe, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, said in 2014 that ...
How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to ...
My Experience of Brutal Arrest at a Black Lives Matter Protest
It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with ...
