Tag: criminal injustice
Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer
In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, ...
After Biden Clemency Action for Drug Convictions, Most People Want More
As President Joe Biden announces a new round of pardons and commutations—including several for ...
Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing
[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview ...
How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a ...
VA Woman Could Face Lifetime in Prison for Mushroom, Cannabis Sales
A woman in Louisa County, Virginia, faces a sentence of up to 160 years ...
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
DULF Unveils Defense Strategy for Compassion-Club Criminal Charges
The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in Vancouver has outlined its intended defense to ...
Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” Strategy
Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple ...
Hundreds Prosecuted for Drug Use During Pregnancy in Year After Dobbs
A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at ...
To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg
The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as ...
