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The ACLU is challenging a Tennessee law that criminalizes HIV status. This law unfairly prevents people from securing employment and housing.

Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.

Three years after President Biden ordered federal agencies to end prison profiteering, the Marshals Service continues to sidestep the ban.

Today, Oregon’s lawmakers knowingly took us backwards. By passing HB 4002 which recriminalizes drug addiction, they chose to send our most vulnerable neighbors to jail instead of treatment.

A class-action lawsuit challenges the permanent exclusion of people with felony convictions from serving on juries.

Prior to the passage of Measure 110, thousands were arrested and jailed every year for drug possession, the authors write. People with addictions need substance abuse treatment and services, not criminal penalties.

The voices of impacted communities must be integrated into the design process of predictive tools used in the criminal legal system.

The criminal justice system is already overburdened, and criminalizing low-level drug possession does not work, says Grant Hartley.

This systemic problem can and must be rectified and repaired. Here’s how.