criminal injustice

FCC Denies Securus Exemption From Price Caps on Calls From Prisons, Jails

On August 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued final rulings on multiple outstanding issues related to its recent order…

August 26, 2024

Harm Reduction Community’s Diverse Efforts to Raise DULF Defense Funds

Since Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) cofounders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were charged with criminal possession in May—having created…

August 19, 2024

OK Prisons Privatize Mail, as “Digital Processing Centers” Expand Drug War

Beginning September 1, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) will no longer deliver physical mail to the nearly 23,000 people…

August 13, 2024

When the Prison Grievance Process Is Worth the Risk

For nearly three decades, I've been hearing people scream for help. Screams of people being raped, robbed, stabbed. Screams of…

August 5, 2024

“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design

Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States were built with 10- to 14-foot…

July 24, 2024

Family Demands Justice for D’Vontaye Mitchell, Killed in Milwaukee

D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man, died after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards at the Hyatt Regency…

July 24, 2024

Child Drug Exposure Cases, and the Vilification of Parents Who Use Drugs

The woman, flanked by detectives in the video, hangs her head as they cuff her. “It never should have happened,”…

July 22, 2024

“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched

At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a 10-year sentence for a nonviolent felony.…

July 18, 2024

Feds Have Deported Over 500,000 People for Drugs Since 2002

The federal government has deported hundreds of thousands of people over drug convictions in recent years, details a new report—even…

July 16, 2024

“Let’s Go After This Whole Thing”—DULF Challenges Criminal Charges

Vancouver’s drug-user rights movement is bracing for what could be yet another long legal battle ahead, as the Drug User…

June 20, 2024