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Criminalization
February 20, 2024
Nicholas Slayton
The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness
As the high court deliberates, policymakers are preparing for the possibility that they might solve a problem they created in the most punitive way.
May 5, 2022
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy
The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages.
December 15, 2021
Cora Currier
The Humanitarian Horror of L.A. Rain
Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.
February 25, 2021
Zachary Siegel
What If We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs?
Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head.
August 20, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Stories Kamala Harris Won’t Tell Anymore
In her historic DNC speech, the former prosecutor elided most of her resume to craft a different image of her record.
June 25, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Justice Department’s Fake Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Newspapers love a good “Feds take down sex trafficking” story, even if there are no sex traffickers actually taken down.
June 3, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
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Katie McDonough
Protest Medics on Being Targeted by the Police, in Their Own Words
“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”
May 29, 2020
Patricia
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Melissa Gira Grant
I Gave Birth While Incarcerated During a Pandemic
“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”
May 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Surveillance State
In the drive to “reopen” the economy, the means to radically expand tech-based surveillance and criminalize our everyday lives are there for the taking.
April 21, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Brief Criminal History of the Mask
How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since
March 24, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Scenes From an American Pandemic
Hospital workers, street medics, and people in prison describe navigating the coronavirus and life as they know it right now.
February 18, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Trump Administration Finally Broke the Anti-Trafficking Movement
The bipartisan movement to “combat trafficking” was built on many of the same superficialities as the First Family, but everyone has their limit.
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