Intersections + Injustice
California County Eyes Mandatory Drug Treatment Bill
A newly introduced California Assembly bill would sentence people arrested on drug charges to ...
In Texas Prisons, Horror Stories Emerge From Catastrophic Blackout
As a winter storm battered Texas, 4.5 million people lost power. A humanitarian crisis ...
Our Outdated Washington Prison Leaves Us Vulnerable to Climate and COVID
The Washington State Reformatory (WSR), where I’ve been incarcerated for the past three years, ...
Uprooting the Drug War: Initiative Details Harms to Immigrants and Much More
Imagine this: Two people walk down opposite sides of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Both ...
Detainees at St. Louis City Jail Rise Up to Protest Inhumane Treatment
Dozens of people incarcerated at St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) protested inhumane and ...
Why Didn’t Rochester’s New Mental Health Crisis Team Prevent Latest Police Brutality?
An incident of police brutality in Rochester, New York, calls into question reforms the ...
Boston’s “Methadone Mile” and the Wars on Drug Users, Unhoused People
Four gentrifying Boston neighborhoods—Roxbury, Dorchester, the South End and South Boston—collide and form the ...
Homeless NYC Residents Grill Mayoral Candidates on Housing Crisis
The race is on to become the next leader of New York City, with ...
“They Want to Do Me In”: The Prisoner Who Fought COVID Overcrowding
In May, as COVID-19 loomed over incarcerated people across the country, Ivan Von Staich ...
Slovenia’s Sole Grassroots Syringe Exchange Violently Evicted, Bulldozed
Slovenia’s sole grassroots harm reduction organization was forcefully displaced after authorities demolished a former ...
