Tag: criminal injustice
Canada’s Election Guarantees Grim Outlook for Harm Reduction
As Canadians head to the polls in the coming days, they will be faced ...
Florida May Soon Ban Anonymous Officer Misconduct Complaints
Under a proposed bill, Florida would no longer allow officer misconduct complaints to be ...
Prison Visits Should Have Always Been a Right, Not a Privilege
Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around ...
Background Checks Keep Saying I Can’t Do Jobs I Was Already Hired For
After two or three phone interviews with Walmart, they hired me for a clerical ...
Refelonizing Fentanyl Had No Good Outcomes: Colorado Study
Increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl had zero impact on overdose deaths in Colorado and ...
Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.
On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections ...
Alberta Will Force People Who Use Drugs to Enter Treatment
The government of Alberta, Canada, will force people who use drugs into substance use ...
South Dakota Considers Defelonizing Drug Ingestion
South Dakota might change a drug law that makes it an outlier in the ...
VA Lawmakers Advance Three Marijuana, Psychedelics Reform Bills
Virginia lawmakers have advanced a handful of drug policy bills—including measures to legalize commercial ...
Police Consent Decrees at Stake as Trump Transforms DOJ
The Trump administration is freezing any new civil rights investigations as part of a ...
