Jeff Deeney

Jeff Deeney is a social worker and freelance writer from Philadelphia. He works with felony drug offenders in the criminal-justice system and writes about urban poverty and drug culture.

Homicide Spike Terrorizes Philly

Since the beginning of the year, Philadelphia has buried 32 murder victims. By Jeff Deeney

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Crime

Philly's Terrified Basement Prisoners

Four mentally disabled adults were found chained up and abused in a Philadelphia basement.

Jeff Deeney

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Philly's Cop-Free Heroin Zone

Kensington Avenue's ghoulish world of addiction and prostitution exists outside the law.

Jeff Deeney

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The New Rise of PCP

The angel dust of the ‘80s is back in a new form called “wet,” and teens are going crazy for it—literally. Jeff Deeney on how a drug that makes users psychotic is staging a comeback.

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Video: Terror on the Streets of Philadelphia

As another possible victim of the Kensington Avenue Strangler is discovered, The Daily Beast's Jeff Deeney and Gregory Gilderman talk to the women of the city's notorious neighborhood about living with addiction, prostitution, and fear of a serial killer.

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Jeff Deeney

Homicide Spike Terrorizes Philly

Philly's Terrified Basement Prisoners

Philly's Cop-Free Heroin Zone

The New Rise of PCP

Video: Terror on the Streets of Philadelphia

The Kensington Avenue Strangler

The GPS Murderer

Get Me My Legal Heroin

Ambien for Coke Heads

Inside the Dead Girl's Wild Nightclub