Jonathan Kirkpatrick

Drug war correspondent covering harm reduction from behind enemy lines @WACorrections. Writing @Filtermag_org @theappeal @truthout @JewishCurrents. Send tips ⤵️

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

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.”
https://t.co/qCHB1YmxaN

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"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:
https://t.co/7RNONe9urh

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"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:
https://t.co/R4uD6EdGdH

[Darrell K. Jackson @DKJackson20]

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.

[Empowerment Avenue @EmpowermentAve]

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:

https://t.co/qfx5Ibq9E1

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"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:
https://t.co/vvn4Lg3RPa

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"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:
https://t.co/KpPEJo19T5

[ChristopherBlackwell @ChrisWBlackwell]

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.

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"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:
https://t.co/KpPEJo19T5

[Empowerment Avenue @EmpowermentAve]

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.

https://t.co/K4N9oqMrJJ

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"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:
https://t.co/7RNONe9urh

[The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) @PoliceForReform]

Seattle Recriminalizes Drug Use, Adds Arrest Alternatives It Won’t Pay For https://t.co/t0o54MYsF2 via @Filtermag_org by @jonmkirkpatrick

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“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:
https://t.co/sX26jNUaGb

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"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: https://t.co/7RNONe9urh

[Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim]

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: https://t.co/B5BKCkxjrB

[Raymond M. Williams Jr. @raywilliams80]

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. https://t.co/jiVjl36caH

[Empowerment Avenue @EmpowermentAve]

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 @jonmkirkpatrick]

Arresting people and prosecuting them in court does not keep them out of the criminal-legal system. It exposes them to law enforcement and saddles them with a criminal record that can bar them from jobs and housing.

My latest for @Filtermag_org:

https://t.co/4Oi2OmYXIY

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"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:
https://t.co/EXAmc2Mjmo

[ChristopherBlackwell @ChrisWBlackwell]

I teamed up with @EmpowermentAve's @EmilyNonko to write about the aggressive intimidation and retaliation incarcerated writers face for exposing what happens inside prisons https://t.co/F2WKn1xjCK