Tag: criminal injustice
Maine Set to Make Its Good Samaritan Law the “Strongest in the Nation”
On April 20, harm reduction advocates in Maine reached a deal with Democratic Governor ...
FL State Attorney Launches Pilot to Stop “Traumatic” Misdemeanor Arrests
Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has just implemented its first-ever Adult Civil Citation program—a 90-day ...
NY Activists Rally to Defend SCS, Decriminalize Buprenorphine
On April 7, activists rallied across New York state to demand that politicians take ...
How Exactly Are Tablets Supposed to Solve Georgia’s Prisons Crisis?
On January 19, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward deflected questions from the ...
ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at Infamous Alabama Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on March 25 that it will stop detaining ...
Biden Plans an Extra $30 Billion to Fund the Police
President Biden doesn’t want to defund the police. Instead, he wants to give them ...
Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It
The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department ...
Tucson’s Top Prosecutor Pulls Back From No-Minor-Drug-Charges Policy
In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an ...
Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of ...
We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison
The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that ...
