Drug war correspondent covering harm reduction from behind enemy lines @WACorrections. Writing @Filtermag_org @theappeal @truthout @JewishCurrents. Send tips ⤵️
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Naltrexone as Opioid Treatment: Who Does It Work For, Besides Cops?
"Why do people keep prescribing it for OUD?" asks @jonmkirkpatrick.
Christian has been given many shots, some court-ordered, on his way out of jails. “I OD’d a whole bunch of times.”
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"Cops circulate it to keep themselves in power; journalists to keep themselves in business, and because it’s just tradition by now."
Media Never Changed Its 1970s PCP Propaganda, Just Repurposed It
By @jonmkirkpatrick and @kastaliamedrano:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"This is his gig and always has been. HIV, ebola, COVID—he comes out heavy as the Epidemic Guy, sowing fear around a popular theory by saying the science supports it."
We’ll Know Harm Reduction Is Mainstream Once Dr. Fauci Likes It
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
Sexual abuse is often a taboo topic for men, especially Black men. Writing this article made me reflect & recognize the harm I've endured. Abuse affects entire communities, not just individuals. We cannot tolerate a society that protects abusers and silences survivors.
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Darrell Jackson, who is a member of the Writers Development Group at Washington Corrections Center led by @ChrisWBlackwell, published "Coming to Terms With a Lifetime in Prison" for the publication Merion West.
Read it here:
merionwest.com/2023/11/12/co…
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"No one's ever contracted HIV via spitting, but this was the '90s. The prison guards wrote me up for trying to intentionally transmit a communicable disease."
Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"Fentanyl isn't sold in cocaine intentionally, nor on a mass scale. It’s a localized supply chain error—dangerous, but not a widespread public health threat."
Fentanyl Isn’t Being Cut Into the Cocaine Supply. Here’s Why.
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
I’m an incarcerated journalist. Today Securus, a predatory prison communication co, silenced journalists. With no warning they deleted all drafts of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts. Articles. Everything gone. We’re no longer able to save drafts. Now near impossible to write.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"Per a member of a transnational trafficking organization, there’s no financial incentive to put fentanyl in cocaine. Which doesn't stop it from happening by accident."
Fentanyl Isn’t Being Cut Into the Cocaine Supply. Here’s Why.
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
filtermag.org/fentanyl-cocai…
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Now online: Kwaneta Harris writes for @readlux about going seven years in solitary confinement without speaking to her three children. Accompanied with powerful photos taken inside the Murray Unit prison by Ariana Gomez.
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"Ideally journalists would be more skeptical of stories about 'zombies' with superhuman strength, but they'll repeat them if the source is a cop."
Media Never Changed Its 1970s PCP Propaganda, Just Repurposed It
By @jonmkirkpatrick and @kastaliamedrano:
filtermag.org/pcp-meth-news-…
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
Seattle Recriminalizes Drug Use, Adds Arrest Alternatives It Won’t Pay For filtermag.org/seattle-drug-p… via @Filtermag_org by @jonmkirkpatrick
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
“Here, you can pound on the wall or the window and get our attention,” CO Rory McCracken told Filter. “Good luck getting Narcan on graveyard in R-4 or -5.”
WA Prisons Clear All Guards to Carry Narcan. Not All Intend to Do So.
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"In 1977, media coverage of PCP was beside itself. If you used it, you had superhuman strength. You were invincible. You could jump, you could fly."
Media Never Changed Its 1970s PCP Propaganda, Just Repurposed It
By @jonmkirkpatrick and @kastaliamedrano: filtermag.org/pcp-meth-news-…
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
This Wednesday, 9/27 at 4 PM ET: Please join us virtually for this conversation about prison journalism and censorship, featuring @EmpowermentAve's @ChrisWBlackwell, Kwanetta Harris, Sara Kielly, and @EmilyNonko, and moderated by @Abolition_Jess. Register: RTSJournalism.eventbrite.com
ALT Art from the exhibit "Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship," with the exhibit title in black on a yellow rectangle in the upper-right. A pink rectangle with black text on top of the art: "Prison Journalism and Censorship. A Virtual Event." To the right of the art is a white section with black text that reads: "September 27. 4PM-6PM EST. Virtual. RSVP: RTSJournalism.eventbrite.com."
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
When tablets first came to my prison, it changed life inside -- but nothing in this world is free. Read about it in my latest publication with @theprogressive. progressive.org/latest/when-…
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MUTUAL AID REQUEST! Big warm welcome home to @UnCagedCritique. We are helping with some funds as she starts up her life and continues her writing career from out here. If you can send any money her way, please send it to Venmo account Emily-Nonko with the line "For Christy."
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
"There's funding for diversion to treatment pre-trial, but not pre-booking. The new ordinance also gives unprecedented power to the Seattle City Attorney, who for the first time will be able to prosecute people for drug possession."
By @jonmkirkpatrick:
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Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
I teamed up with @EmpowermentAve's @EmilyNonko to write about the aggressive intimidation and retaliation incarcerated writers face for exposing what happens inside prisons shadowproof.com/2023/09/19/f…
Jonathan Kirkpatrick retweeted
The loneliest place on earth is prison. In my 25 years of incarceration, I know this pain too well. But two heroines, Elodie and Sigrid, are doing their part to combat Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation. I wrote about it for @Slate. slate.com/news-and-politics/…