Intersections + Injustice
Cannabis Conviction? The First Ever National Expungement Week Begins
Expungement is going national. The process of having prior cannabis convictions wiped—and beginning to ...
The Harm Reduction Movement: Bigger Than Ever, But Facing Threats
If numbers gauge the health of a movement, this one is flourishing. Two thousand ...
The First Searchable Database of Every DA Is Built to Limit Prosecutorial Power
Last week Color of Change—a nonprofit racial justice organization—launched a tool that no other ...
Women Imprisoned: When Substance Use and Treatment Become Means of Control
Are you sure he’s not cheating on you?” I asked the woman next to ...
Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons ...
Does “Community Policing” Reduce Harms or Enable More of the Same?
Oluwadurotimi Oyebola, 16, was enjoying a warm day after school in Brownsville, Brooklyn on ...
Dignity on Death Row: One Man Among 40,000 Awaiting Execution
“They said it would stop, the pain, if I signed on the dotted line,” ...
Mass Bail Out of Hundreds of NYC Prisoners Begins
On October 1, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and a coalition of grassroots ...
Drug Laws and Stigma Are Major Factors in #WhyIDidntReport
On September 21, a week before Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate ...
“More Like Retail Than Healing”—Can the Opioid Crisis Bring Health Equity to Our Medical System?
Fifteen years ago, with an EMT colleague and an armed police officer, I arrived ...
