US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call …
2024年11月21日 · T he landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will move forward as planned, despite an onslaught of lawsuits and delay tactics from the corrections industry. The first of the new FCC caps will be enforced January 1, 2025. On November 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...
San Joaquin County, CA, to Vote on Drug-Testing Public Benefit …
2024年10月24日 · V oters in San Joaquin County, California, are about to decide if people on public benefits should be drug-tested under threat of losing their benefits. If approved, Measure R on the November ballot would require that anyone who receives cash or rent benefits from the county, and is suspected by officials of using drugs, submit to mandatory drug testing.
With Winter Coming, Cities’ Emergency Shelter Plans Vary Wildly
2024年12月3日 · A s temperatures drop around the country, cities and counties have an even more urgent imperative to shelter thousands of people who otherwise face winter on the streets. Responses from local governments, and from service providers, vary widely. But the idea that even one person could freeze to death for lack of shelter is an indictment of national failure.
No Drug Education: The Rise and Fall of DARE - Filter
2024年5月1日 · P raised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts at the peak of its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Funded by the US government, the program was exported to dozens of other countries, too. . Altogether, DARE reached an estimated 50 million ...
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
2023年9月27日 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as …
The Overdose Crisis Was Ignored in This Election Cycle
2024年11月5日 · T he overdose crisis claims over 100,000 lives each year in the United States, but has received very little attention from leading candidates Kamala Harris (D) and Donald Trump (R) during the presidential election campaign.. Whatever the outcome after November 5, the winner will face a continuing public health emergency. Proven lifesaving strategies are available.
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FCC Denies Securus Exemption From Price Caps on Calls From
O n August 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued final rulings on multiple outstanding issues related to its recent order capping costs of communication with people in prisons and jails. Private telecommunications contractor Securus Technologies had filed several petitions, including a request for an exemption so it could offer “alternative rate options.”
Despite Everything, More People Than Ever Choosing Safer …
2024年11月26日 · Kiran is a tobacco harm reduction fellow for Filter.She is a writer and journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, I Paper and the Times, among many others.Her book, I Can Hear the Cuckoo, was published by Gaia in …
Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” …
2024年10月8日 · O regon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple possession of all drugs from early 2021. Counties across the state are responding to this rollback in different ways, but an example of the most common model is in Multnomah County, home to the city of Portland.