To Promote Health Equity, States Must Restrict Police Intervention in Mobile Crisis Response
The implementation of 988, a national mental health crisis hotline, should center non-police responses to behavioral health emergencies.
Criminal Law
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Read more: Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
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Read more: Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed
U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve.
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Read more: Washington Psilocybin Bill Would Legalize Supported Adult Use Washington Psilocybin Bill Would Legalize Supported Adult Use
On Tuesday, Washington State legislators filed a bill that would legalize the supported adult use of psilocybin by people 21 years of age and older.
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Read more: The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.
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Read more: Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation
What if squad cars and SWAT teams were the last line of response to social dysfunction, rather than the first?
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Read more: Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
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Read more: The Biden Administration Should Resolve Cannabis Regulation Chaos The Biden Administration Should Resolve Cannabis Regulation Chaos
The Biden Administration has the opportunity to be the first administration to rid our legal system of cannabis regulation chaos.
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Read more: Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
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Read more: Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety
Collective movement struggles during the twin crises of COVID-19 and the 2020 uprisings have helped blur the concepts of public safety and public health.
