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    I’ve Always Been Incarcerated With Men. I Never Felt Safe Until This Time.

    In the year between paroling out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody and ...

    White House Reviews Its Drug Control Strategy, Finds It’s Doing a Good Job

    In 2022 the White House Office of National Drug Control Strategy (ONDCP) published its ...

    Study: Despite Fears, Legal Marijuana Hasn’t Normalized Impaired Driving

    Contrary to concerns among some critics that legalizing marijuana would normalize cannabis-impaired driving, a ...

    DOJ Sues CVS, Alleging “Massive Public Harm” From Opioid Dispensing

    The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions ...

    Why I Report on Tobacco Harm Reduction

    Tobacco harm reduction, which I’ve been covering as a journalist for a couple of ...

    In Prison, a Sex Conviction Is a Target for Assault. Staff Pretends Otherwise.

    Coming into the Tennessee men’s prison system nearly 30 years ago, I assumed that ...

    The Great American Cop-Out

    Today marks the American Cancer Society’s 48th Great American Smokeout, held annually on the ...

    How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended

    In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the ...

    Learning to Live With Suicide in Prison

    [This article describes deaths by suicide, including references to the methods of suicide.]   ...