Our Prison Is Used to Mental Illness. Taking Care of Our Own Was New.
In 20 years of incarceration across four different Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) ...
Watch: A Documentary About Schizophrenia and Vaping
Does anyone care that people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have devastatingly high rates of ...
COVID Left Our Private Prison With a New Normal: “Rolling Lockdowns”
Like with so many prisons across the country, the pandemic sent Tennessee’s South Central ...
We’ve Now Lost Two of Our Children. How Can This End?
It’s a Saturday evening, the day before Mother’s Day. My husband and I are ...
Prisoners Near Release Face a Choice: Not Getting Meds, or Not Going Home
[Read Part 1 of this story here] When prisoners with release dates enter the ...
Approaching COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in People Who Use Drugs
One of the many harms of the stigma society inflicts on marginalized people who ...
Feds Say They Aim to Finish Cannabis Scheduling Review “This Year”
The head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ...
Harm Reductionists Ready for Juneteenth Actions in Milwaukee
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, harm reduction advocates are teaming up to hand out free life-saving ...
Medical Privacy Is Still Our Right in Prison, Unless It Involves Psych Meds
Just before the pandemic hit, when my Washington Corrections Center (WCC) job assignment was ...
I Chose Fentanyl Over the Humiliation of Methadone Treatment
I already knew that my methadone clinic didn’t give a fuck about me or ...
