Tag: criminal injustice
Supreme Court Blocks Alabama Bid to Proceed With Banned Nitrogen Execution
On June 11 the Supreme Court received, and subsequently rejected, a request from the ...
Ignoring Georgia’s Public Defender Crisis, and the Obvious Way to Fix It
Georgia’s public defender shortage was recently of interest to the media when it affected ...
Everyone Against the Drug War Needs to Know About Jury Nullification
In 1734, New York Weekly Journal publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested for seditious ...
Portland Changes “Nuisance Property” Code, a Crackdown on Motel Sex Work
Emi Koyama is the founder of Seattle-based Coalition for Rights & Safety for People ...
Louisiana Advances Bill to Jail People Who Use Marijuana Near Campuses
A Louisiana Senate committee has approved a House-passed bill that threatens to send people to jail ...
Lifers Fall Through the Cracks of the Prison Security Classification System
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: ...
New Threats of Prison and Caning: Singapore’s “Totalitarian” Vape Ban
New legislation in Singapore will strengthen the country’s vape prohibition with threats of long ...
Fair Future Act Takes Aim at Housing Discrimination Over Drug Convictions
Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have filed a bill that would repeal a decades-old federal statute ...
After “Iryna’s Law,” Behavioral Crisis Response in NC Grows More Carceral
On February 5, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein (D) signed an executive order titled ...
Mexico’s Vape Prohibition Is Already Biting
A mandate to ban nicotine vapes was enshrined in Mexico’s constitution in early 2025—a ...
