by Alfrieda Hylton | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, overdose crisis, Race
The War on Drugs has been with us for more than fifty years, and hasn’t been a war on drugs at all. It’s been a war on people: people like me, and my family. Black people. The part where it was supposed to decrease drug use? That part failed. I live in Prince George’s...
by Brenda Siegel | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Opioid Crisis
On June 1, Vermont became the first state in the nation to remove criminal penalties for possession of “therapeutic amounts” of buprenorphine. This amounts to a one- to two-week supply of this lifesaving treatment for people who suffer from Opioid Use Disorder....
by Jodi Risper | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Election, Featured
Black People Showed Up for Biden; Now We Need an Attorney General Who Will Show Up for Us President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris have both struggled to answer for their histories of promoting “tough-on-crime” policies which have harmed Black...
by Church | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Criminal Justice, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Monroe County Sheriff / Twitter / cc In May, Citizen Action of New York, part of the People's Action national network of grassroots groups, learned of a man being held in indefinite detention because of COVID-19. We asked him if he would be willing to...
by Ravi Mangla | Jul 28, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Democracy, Featured
Photo credit: Sgt. Joe Davis, Utah National Guard / cc For decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the benefit of all. But in practice, that’s never been true. One of the basic measures of a “public good” is that it’s accessible...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Supreme Court
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual...
