Intersections + Injustice
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 ...
How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?
“We call on social justice movements to develop strategies and analysis that address both ...
Virginia Court Decides Homeless “Habitual Drunkards” Don’t Deserve Due Process
Not even Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, once referred to as “Wall ...
“They Want Us Dead”—Anti-Trafficking Laws Attack Drug-Using Sex Workers
I remember the day Backpage went down this year: April 6. I’d been working ...
ACLU Sues Jails for Withholding Life-Saving Addiction Treatment Drugs
County jails in Washington, Massachusetts and Maine are facing lawsuits filed by the American ...
As a Cop, I Know Police Contempt for Drug Users Is Still Widespread—And It Comes From the Top
“Don’t bother replacing the injections. Let nature take her course!” —Comment from a ...
