Social workers are overlooked actors in the drug war, separating parents who use drugs from their children, often regardless of…
Marcus Andrew Burrage was once a small-town guy from rural Iowa who sold another man heroin. As is typical of…
As the coronavirus outbreak escalates, the United States has brought drug-war charges against the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Nicolás…
On a late August afternoon, a woman with shoulder-length brown hair asked a passing driver on the west side of…
Members of Congress are joining criminal justice reform advocates to demand that some people currently in prisons be released to…
Measures in response to the coronavirus are rapidly progressing in the US, with workplaces, restaurants, and public events being shuttered…
There has been a spate, in recent years, of public defenders speaking out against injustice, then getting in trouble for…
People held in jails and prisons throughout the US are at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19, thanks to crowded conditions,…
In 2012, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) collected data on everyone arrested in the last four years, and used it…
Vaping-associated pulmonary illness reportedly contributed to 68 deaths through February 18, 2020. After an initial, misplaced drug scare around nicotine…