Tag: criminal injustice
Canada’s Supreme Court to Rule On Scope of Good Samaritan OD Law
In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an ...
New Jersey Governor Issues Pardons for Dozens of Drug-War Convictions
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) has announced pardons for dozens of people with ...
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 ...
