The Prison Policy Initiative has released a report challenging the effectiveness of specialty courts as an alternative to incarceration, arguing that they often fall short of their goals and can even expand the reach of the criminal legal system.
A comprehensive 2025 evidence review by Fair and Just Prosecution has found that pervasive misinformation has led to harmful policies, public panic, and preventable deaths in the fentanyl crisis, and that public health strategies are working to reduce fentanyl-linked deaths.
The American Psychological Association has warned that a new Trump administration executive order on homelessness could have serious consequences for mental health care, increase criminalization of vulnerable people and roll back decades of progress in evidence-based treatment.
The War on Drugs has failed to address addiction, overdose, crime, and community breakdown, and instead has criminalized pain, isolation, poverty, and race, resulting in a public health disaster and a war on people, especially the most vulnerable among us.
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By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor When San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a crackdown on drugs…