Over two years ago, in June 2019, the city of Oakland, California became the first in the US to decriminalize…
Eric Adams—the Brooklyn borough president, former state senator and former NYPD captain—is now the Democratic candidate for New York City…
I have a million stories about my older brother, Billy, that exemplify the harms of the United States criminal justice…
During a recent webinar hosted by Prosecutorial Performance Indicators, an organization that encourages better data collection in the criminal justice…
On June 29, the Washington, DC Council voted to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products—a designation that includes vapes as…
From the get-go, sex worker activists knew nothing good would come from FOSTA, a 2018 law that formally makes online…
On June 4, Chandran Vithushan, a young man in Sri Lanka, was buried by his family. He had been arrested…
A six-year effort to decriminalize syringe possession for drug use in New York is finally gaining ground. On June 7,…
By every measure, the global drug war has failed. It has failed to decrease drug use and sales. Drug-involved overdose…
George Floyd’s final breaths on May 25, 2020, gasping out “I can’t breathe,” led millions of people in the US…