The API failed to deliver the resource. The state supreme court will decide if a judge broke the SAFE-T Act by putting a woman in jail before her trial, after she missed eight court dates.

The new facility in Providence, operated by the nonprofit Project Weber/RENEW, provides a place for people to use drugs under medical supervision. Rhode Island is the only state to have approved ...

As proponents such as Foxx claim the SAFE-T Act’s critics were motivated by race, the fact remains that victims of violent crime in Chicago are overwhelmingly people of color.

They also don’t seem to be getting people into treatment. Data from New York’s sites show that only a small fraction of clients are getting referred for medication or counseling services.

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 20, 2023, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Proof That Safe-Injection Sites Are Safe for Neighbors, Too .

Less than a week after the Safe-T Act took effect, eliminating cash bail in Illinois, some state's attorneys are voicing concerns about defendants being released pretrial.

The original SAFE-T Act law was a 764-page bill that was dropped on legislators in the middle of the night during the final hours of a lame-duck session of the legislature in January of 2021.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A controversial part of the SAFE-T Act goes before the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday. The act’s elimination of cash bail is at the center of the case before the justic… ...