Intersections + Injustice

    Study: How Punitive Policies Harm Pregnant Drug Users

    The United States has state-level laws that criminalize pregnant people who use drugs, separate ...

    Grappling With the “Promise and Perils” of Public Health

    Speakers on a November 7 panel at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Reform conference in ...

    Trump Wants War With Mexico’s So-Called Drug Cartels

    Nine US citizens belonging to a Mormon community in Mexico were killed on November ...

    The Cash Bail System Is an Abusive Anachronism

    Even for the Trump era, it sounds like an extraordinary lapse in political decorum. ...

    Why Private Prisons Are at the Center of a Pennsylvania Prosecutor Race

    The involvement of for-profit in managing jails and prisons in one Pennsylvania county could ...

    Marijuana Justice and Trump: Inside a DA Election in Rural Pennsylvania

    Law enforcement in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a sprawling rural-to-suburban county and the home of ...

    A TSA Officer Sexually Assaulted Me: Know Your Rights

    The first person I interviewed for this story⁠—days before I knew I would write ...