Philadelphia is the poorest of the ten largest cities in the United States and has one of the highest rates of fatal opioid-related overdoses in the state of Pennsylvania. Faced with a limited landscape of social services and community-based support, and the responsibility of keeping their defendants alive, judges and attorneys in Philadelphia have begun to use probation and incarceration …
Incarceration as Harm Reduction: The realities of lethal street-based opioid overdoses in neoliberal Philadelphia
This article is part of the series: Reducing Harm Responsibly
