Intersections + Injustice
California Finally Clearing Cannabis Records. Will Lessons Be Learned?
California officials have announced that they’re finally making substantial progress on clearing old marijuana ...
Drug Courts Don’t Just Force People Into Treatment. They Deny Us, Too.
Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer ...
How to End Stigma in Hospitals Against People Who Use Drugs?
In 2020, Ronald Richardson and his friends who used drugs in Philadelphia began noticing ...
It’s Not a Meth Overdose Crisis. It’s a Data Crisis.
When someone dies without a doctor present, and they hadn’t seen a doctor anytime ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Making Phone Calls From Our Prison Costs Us More Than Just the Money
Thirty years ago, Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners were only allowed one 15-minute ...
