SCCF is one of four Tennessee prisons currently operated by for-profit contractor CoreCivic, the second-largest private prison operator in the country. For every person it incarcerates, the company makes around $90 per day....
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such clear examples of poverty pushing people to make ‘bad health decisions’.
Opvee, an opioid-overdose antidote manufactured by Indivior that was approved in 2023, has in recent weeks been slowly rolling out to law enforcement departments. Unlike Narcan or other overdose antidotes currently on the market, Opvee isn’t a naloxone product. It’s nalmefene, a different opioid antagonist that lasts longer....
Nebraska is a state so big that it takes at least six hours to drive across it from east to west. But its two million residents have zero syringe service programs (SSP), leaving people who inject drugs without access to safe equipment. Possession or distribution of syringes is criminalized as a misdemeanor under the state’s...
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"Rep. Jamin Raskin (D-MD) introduced the legislation—titled the “Cannabis Users’ Restoration of Eligibility (CURE) Act”—on July 27 ... The bipartisan bill seeks to "catch up" with the reality of legal use, and would retroactively review employment decisions back to 2008."
Despite Gov. Kemp's interest in targeting gang-related violence, he seems to misunderstand how it works and how he's exacerbating it.
