An important political initiative aims to right some of the wrongs of the War on Drugs in Oregon. Though the…
Illinois is set to become the next state to end the practice of suspending driver’s licenses over unpaid traffic violations,…
An incident of police brutality in Rochester, New York, calls into question reforms the city has put in place to…
Transgender and criminal justice reform activists won a major victory as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation passed that…
Illinois will make history by becoming the first US state to end cash bail. Instead, judges must impose the least…
After two years of false starts, could 2021 be the year that New York finally legalizes marijuana? All the stars…
When a government agency is as punitive, secretive and capricious as the US Department of Justice often is, trying incremental…
Since 2020’s uprisings against anti-Black police violence, communities and institutions across the country have been critically re-evaluating their relationships with…
Last month, the US House of Representatives took a major step toward repairing some harms of the drug war by…
Few years in living memory have been as dramatic and distressing as 2020, and many of us were glad to…