Intersections + Injustice
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 ...
Medicaid in Five States Will Cover MOUD for Prisoners Nearing Release
On July 2, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) more than doubled the ...
Reactions to the Supreme Court Ruling Against People Who Sleep Outside
On June 28, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it’s not illegal for ...
“Gifted”: When HIV Was a Death Sentence, and Worth It to Get Housing
In the early 1990s, there was a joke people would make about HIV transmission. ...
