criminal injustice

Stop Chasing Amy Klobuchar for President Without Looking at Her Record

Kamala Harris recently made headlines for throwing her hat into the ring of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, despite a tainted…

January 30, 2019

“Exhilarating”—The Life of a Career Drug Dealer Illustrates Hard Truths

Casper has lived a life out straight out of Pulp Fiction. Over a 26-year career selling illicit drugs across the…

January 30, 2019

Correctional Phone Service Collects Biometric Data of People Who Talk With Prisoners–And Shares It With Law Enforcement

Phone and video calls between incarcerated people and those on the outside are never private. The content of such calls…

January 29, 2019

SC Dating Violence Law Would Punish Kids More Harshly Than Adults

After 16-year-old Sierra Landry was killed in 2013 by an abusive schoolmate she once dated, South Carolina started talking about…

January 22, 2019

If Staten Island Has a Drug Problem, DA McMahon Is Its Enabler

New York City’s  “Forgotten Borough” may be an island just five miles south of Manhattan but it has a deeply…

January 16, 2019

The Haunting Memorials of Philly’s Drug Wars Have Much to Teach Us

Three weeks before Christmas, a car made its way slowly up Howard Street, a narrow one-way thoroughfare in the Latino…

January 15, 2019

The Shady “National Police Association” Behind the Headlines

Last month the National Police Association (NPA) filed an ethics complaint against Rachael Rollins, the new district attorney for Suffolk…

January 9, 2019

We Need to Reduce the Harms of Draconian Tobacco Policies

Harm reduction shouldn’t just seek to reduce the harm caused by drugs, but also the harm caused by drug policies,” tweeted…

December 17, 2018

This Proposed Michigan Law Would Treat Parents Who Use Drugs Like Sex Offenders

Sex offender registries and notification laws have proliferated in the name of protecting women and children, despite the fact that…

December 12, 2018