Tag: criminal injustice
BC Government’s Involuntary Drug Treatment Expansion Plan Condemned
The British Columbia government is moving towards a regime of involuntary treatment for people ...
FCC Denies Securus Exemption From Price Caps on Calls From Prisons, Jails
On August 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued final rulings on multiple outstanding ...
Harm Reduction Community’s Diverse Efforts to Raise DULF Defense Funds
Since Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) cofounders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were charged ...
OK Prisons Privatize Mail, as “Digital Processing Centers” Expand Drug War
Beginning September 1, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) will no longer deliver physical ...
When the Prison Grievance Process Is Worth the Risk
For nearly three decades, I’ve been hearing people scream for help. Screams of people ...
“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design
Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States ...
Family Demands Justice for D’Vontaye Mitchell, Killed in Milwaukee
D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man, died after being pinned to the ground by hotel ...
Child Drug Exposure Cases, and the Vilification of Parents Who Use Drugs
The woman, flanked by detectives in the video, hangs her head as they cuff ...
“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched
At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a ...
Feds Have Deported Over 500,000 People for Drugs Since 2002
The federal government has deported hundreds of thousands of people over drug convictions in ...
