Tag: criminal injustice
For NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Abuses, Discipline Is “Close to Nonexistent”
Over a decade after the New York City Police Department’s notoriously racist “stop-and-frisk” practice ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
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 ...
