criminal injustice

New Jersey Governor Issues Pardons for Dozens of Drug-War Convictions

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) has announced pardons for dozens of people with older convictions, most of whom had drug…

December 18, 2024

Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer

In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, the only time he's been inside…

December 17, 2024

After Biden Clemency Action for Drug Convictions, Most People Want More

As President Joe Biden announces a new round of pardons and commutations—including several for people with marijuana and other drug…

December 13, 2024

Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing

[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.]   Pharmacists’…

December 12, 2024

How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing

Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…

December 12, 2024

VA Woman Could Face Lifetime in Prison for Mushroom, Cannabis Sales

A woman in Louisa County, Virginia, faces a sentence of up to 160 years in prison after her conviction for…

December 10, 2024

Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.

Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its investigation into Georgia Department of Corrections…

November 27, 2024

DULF Unveils Defense Strategy for Compassion-Club Criminal Charges

The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in Vancouver has outlined its intended defense to criminal charges against two of its…

October 17, 2024

Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” Strategy

Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple possession of all drugs from early…

October 8, 2024

Hundreds Prosecuted for Drug Use During Pregnancy in Year After Dobbs

A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at an all-time high in the wake…

October 4, 2024