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 September 21. He was playing basketball…

October 10, 2018

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,” wrote Zulfiqar Ali earlier this year.…

October 10, 2018

Mass Bail Out of Hundreds of NYC Prisoners Begins

On October 1, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and a coalition of grassroots organizations launched Mass Bail Out, a…

October 1, 2018

Drug Laws and Stigma Are Major Factors in #WhyIDidntReport

On September 21, a week before Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump tweeted: "I…

October 1, 2018

“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 as a novice 25-year-old paramedic to…

September 30, 2018

How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?

“We call on social justice movements to develop strategies and analysis that address both state AND interpersonal violence, particularly violence…

September 25, 2018

Virginia Court Decides Homeless “Habitual Drunkards” Don’t Deserve Due Process

Not even Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, once referred to as “Wall Street’s most powerful law firm,” could…

September 25, 2018

“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 at a feverish pace, lining up…

September 25, 2018

ACLU Sues Jails for Withholding Life-Saving Addiction Treatment Drugs

County jails in Washington, Massachusetts and Maine are facing lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The lawsuits…

September 24, 2018

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 law enforcement-only forum, referencing naloxone provision;…

September 20, 2018