The State Where Giving Birth Can Be Criminal The State Where Giving Birth Can Be Criminal
Tennessee is arresting new mothers for having used drugs in pregnancy—but in a cruel Catch-22, many can’t get the treatment they need.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Rosa Goldensohn and Rachael Levy
What Happens When A City Decides to Offer Addicts Services, Not Prison Sentences? What Happens When A City Decides to Offer Addicts Services, Not Prison Sentences?
Inspired by Seattle, Santa Fe adopts the LEAD program to divert people arrested for drug possession away from the criminal justice system and into treatment.
Oct 15, 2014 / Cities Rising / Aaron Miguel Cantú
Will the Supreme Court Let Florida Drug-Test All Its Government Employees? Will the Supreme Court Let Florida Drug-Test All Its Government Employees?
What does a positive test mean when your economic fate hinges on the result? What kind of “discipline” is maintained by subjugating bodily privacy in the name of “public safety”?
Apr 18, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet
How Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school students, welfare applicants and the unemployed.
Apr 3, 2013 / Feature / Isabel Macdonald