Not too long ago, the term “marital rape” was considered an oxymoron. In some U.S. states, it might as well still be one. Lawmakers in Ohio are trying to remove archaic forms of “marital privilege” in state laws...
This month, L.A. County's Probation Department will start paying the rent for hundreds of homeless probationers. "Breaking Barriers" may be the first criminal justice program of its kind in the nation. Under a program administered by the...
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi on Monday set the lowest age in California for children visiting parents on their own at San Francisco County Jail, in an effort to make in-custody visits easier for families — something that studies...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) laid out a plan Wednesday she insists would create a pathway for a debt-free college education. In a speech at the Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers headquarters in Washington, D.C.,...
Five years ago, Erik Castro came back from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder and an alcohol problem, though he wouldn’t admit to either. “I don’t want to ask for help,” he says. "I wanted to do what I know...
As an injury prevention coordinator for a Level II trauma center, I'm working to bring trauma-informed practices to the community and have made great inroads in the area with behavioral health, but am discouraged when it comes to implementing...
Judge George W. Timberlake, Ret., chair of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission, poignantly reflects on a young woman who appeared in his court starting at age 9 and how his lack of understanding how trauma and adversity impact childhood, at that...
What's in a number? To many, 81 percent is a success story. It's the nation's all-time-high rate for high school graduation in 2013, the most recent year of federal data . But the NPR Ed Team and reporters from member stations around the...
FACT: Parenting is really hard. Finland knows how to make it slightly easier. I have two children. Keeping them alive is something I haven't failed completely at. Yet. They both are still totally functioning. I haven't scarred them too badly. I...
Who do you think of when you think of public health? Maybe the epidemiologist, the clinic coordinator, the researcher, the program specialist who distributes mosquito nets in malaria-prone countries and pamphlets at health fairs. But...
What were you taught about drugs? GIF via Partnership for a Drug-Free America . Remember hearing about how even just trying an addictive drug once would mean you were hooked for good? GIF via The Meth Project . Well that's what Columbia...
He was initially convicted for armed robbery, but later accused of murdering a prison guard when a riot broke out. Woodfox has always maintained his innocence, adding that he was convicted because of his ties to the Black...
Many solutions are counterintuitive and so our problems are seldom solved. For example, when meeting a bear in the woods, our inclination is to run. The counterintuitive is the safest — freeze. Bears outrun humans. Similarly, people...
The State of Mississippi, which has the second-highest incarceration rate in the country, is in desperate need of quality prison guards. But it can’t seem to pay for them. The salaries are the lowest in the nation, at $24,670 a year,...
“We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out… There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.” “Something is always born of...