Tag: criminal injustice
Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May ...
NYC Defenders: District Attorneys Breaking Their Promises to End Marijuana Prosecutions
On June 11, New York City public defenders released data demonstrating that district attorneys ...
Probation Officers Should Never Direct Medical Care for People With OUD
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment ...
“Spit-and-Acquit” Embodies a Californian DA’s Dystopia
Here’s a good formula for dystopia: a ”spit-and-acquit” program to create a genetic surveillance ...
Denial of Methadone Devastates Incarcerated People: What Hope?
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go ...
Data Platform Scores California Police Departments a Resounding “F” for Racial Bias
Every person in prison is a policy failure,” is a common phrase in abolitionist ...
A Bloody Week Shows the Drug War’s Continuous Violent Ripple Effect
More than 40 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, seven fatally, in what ...
Eurasian States Pouring Money Into Incarceration, Not Harm Reduction
Harm reduction funding around the world is stalling. By extension, harm reductionists in Eastern ...
Why Drug Dealers Are an Under-Utilized Anti-Overdose Resource
Last year, a man in his 20s attending Electric Forest, a Michigan music festival, ...
When a Prosecutor Throws His Money Around to Keep His County “Tough on Crime”
Back in 2009, the Oregon legislature passed a law to remove marijuana from Schedule ...
