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-OSI grantees Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition and Maryland Peer Advisory Council were among the groups leading this event.- By Cassidy Jensen Joined by harm-reduction advocates, local musicians performed outside a Baltimore drug manufacturing facility Wednesday afternoon to protest the price of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan sold by pharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions. Demonstrators parked a flatbed [...]

-Life After Release is an OSI grantee.- By Shannon Clark LARGO — Thousands of Maryland residents will not cast a ballot in this year’s election because they are behind bars. They have not had their voting rights taken from them. In fact, they have not been convicted of a crime. But because they are in [...]

-Janet Felsten is a 1998 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow.- By Jacques Kelly. Over this past summer I learned about something that surrounded me throughout my years in Baltimore: the Jones Falls Trail. It all began when Janet Felsten handed me a foldout map one Saturday at the Waverly Farmers Market off Greenmount Avenue. She told me [...]

-City Councilman Zeke Cohen, leaders of the Baltimore Teachers Union, and several city schools students held a rally outside City Hall calling on district leadership to implement the OSI-initiated and -supported restorative practices program in all Baltimore City schools.- By Lea Skene Days after a student was gunned down outside his northeast Baltimore high school [...]