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Alone: Teens in Solitary Confinement’ debuts on The I Files

[The Center for Investigative Reporting] CIR began investigating the solitary confinement of teenagers in prisons, jails and juvenile halls across the U.S. in March 2013. Juvenile justice experts had been pressing the Department of Justice to flex its muscle on behalf of young inmates, to no avail. Holder’s shop declined all interview requests by CIR. Our reporting quickly zeroed in on Rikers Island, the massive jail complex in New York City, where last year about a quarter of...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "A Culture of Health"

This is an edited version of a comment I added to a blog post by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey  about a "Culture of Health".   In a culture of health, one root of the vision begins in public schools. [Associated Press photo] Last week, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CEO  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey shared a vision for "A Culture of Health". It's a vision that requires a "seismic shift" in perspective and values, to be built grassroots from the ground up, she...

The Trauma of Parenthood

[Olimpia Zagnoli illustration] ...the ideology of modern parenting...can lead to unnecessary feelings of guilt and shame, for it ignores an inconvenient truth: that many women and men experience significant psychological distress in response to becoming a parent and that much of this distress isn’t caused by a hormonal epiphenomenon of the birth process. It is driven instead in large measure by the objectively bleak circumstances new parents often face.

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