One of the nation’s oldest involuntary commitment laws designed specifically to target people who use drugs is facing a court…
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Stephen Wagstaffe, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, said in 2014 that he has never made a decision…
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It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with a friend in June 2016 and…
Friday, June 26 marks the Support, Don’t Punish 2020 Global Day of Action—an annual show of international solidarity against the…
Sajid A. Khan is a community leader and public defender in Santa Clara County, California, a county of almost…
One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of a single face photo. They're now…
The latest manifestation of Pennsylvania’s political culture-gap, with its stark split between progressive cities and conservative small-town and rural areas,…
Since the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops, activists across the country have passionately called to defund the…