Intersections + Injustice
Non-Substance Addictions Are Key to Understanding What Drugs Don’t Do
The parents of a 13-year-old middle school student brought their son to a counselor ...
Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of ...
We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison
The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that ...
Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Flags Inadequate Defense Funding
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of ...
Executions for Drug Convictions Surged in 2021. Most Are Kept Secret.
At least 131 people were executed for drug convictions in 2021, according to a ...
Feds’ Survey Reveals Which Industries Drug-Test Employees the Most
A new federal labor report indicates that drug testing rates at US workplaces have ...
There Has to Be a Better Way to Free Methadone
I had a gut feeling there would be gaslighting, but I didn’t think it ...
Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a ...
Pressure on Massachusetts to Ban Building of New Jails and Prisons
Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to ...
Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...
