The Prescription Police
Placing criminal system tools in health-care providers’ hands causes irreparable damage to patient care and public trust.
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Placing criminal system tools in health-care providers’ hands causes irreparable damage to patient care and public trust.
In Atlanta politicians are pushing for a bigger jail they claim will be more humane. But health-care workers are pushing back.
We must challenge the dominant carceral narrative that one is born an addict and a criminal—rather than constructed as one by those in power.
Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.
Disentangling medical care from policing, prisons, and other punitive institutions remains an imperative—now more than ever.
Urgent action in our nation’s jails and prisons can prevent the kind of mass suffering seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prosecution, incarceration, and surveillance don’t stop child sexual abuse. But prevention can.
The surprising link between Medicaid expansion and arrests levels suggests that keeping people healthy also keeps them from the reach of the criminal legal system.
Co-opting the language of mental health and treatment, jail expansion is taking root in several cities and localities. But these are cages all the same.
Criminalization of so-called drug-induced homicides is yet another manifestation of the failed war on drugs — and far from an adequate public health response.
The loss of the fundamental right to reproductive freedom will only lead to more state surveillance and criminalization of pregnant people.
Practicing correctional medicine is fundamentally an exercise in harm reduction. And it’s no match for freedom itself.