Drug Reporter Phillip Smith

The First Step Act Got Sonny Mikell Out of Life in Prison, So Why Are Federal Prosecutors Trying to Send Him Back?

Editor, Chief Correspondent, Writing Fellow

The Five States Where You’re Most Likely to Get Arrested for Drugs (and the Five Least Likely, Too)

After Enduring Government Experiments, Lab Animals Could Get New Lease on Life

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Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.