criminal injustice

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

As Waupun Correctional Staff Arrested for Abuse, Lockdown Drags On

After Dean Hoffman was transferred to Waupun Correctional Institution in April 2023, his daughter noticed a difference right away. Somehow…

June 14, 2024

How Prison Guard Became the Job Everyone Leaves

Lonnie, in his late 40s, was a high school teacher for 20 years before he came to prison. He and…

June 4, 2024

Watching the Trump Trials in Prison, With Con Artists Cheering Him On

Our living unit at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee doesn't have a communal TV, but there are TVs in…

May 15, 2024

Activists in DC for 4/20, Demanding Federal Action for Marijuana Justice

Activists have gathered in Washington, DC to demand that Congress and President Biden take action to legalize marijuana federally and…

April 19, 2024

NY County Sued for Illegally Denying Person OUD Meds in Jail

A lawsuit accuses a New York county jail of repeatedly denying a man held there his medication for opioid use…

April 12, 2024

FL Isn’t Really Criminalizing Fentanyl “Exposure.” It’s Punishing Possession.

Beginning October 1, Florida will consider it a second-degree felony to expose a first responder to fentanyl, if it results…

April 10, 2024