Mental health courts sound like a great idea—just like the drug courts that inspired them. People with psychiatric disorders often have difficulty controlling their behavior; if you treat them effectively, you’ll reduce crime and the need...
Sometime between 11 am ET and 9 pm ET Wednesday, Dec. 2 , ACEsConnection.com will go offline . Two hours later, it will reappear with a new look. Most of the functions — posting a blog, a calendar event, navigating around the site...
A rapid descent because of the trauma load you carry can be very short. That's what happened to Alaska Native Joseph Murphy in Juneau, Alaska. His death at the hands of the Alaska Department of Corrections was revealed when Governor Walker revealed an...
Over the past 20 years, black enrollment in colleges and universities has skyrocketed . It’s a huge success story, one that’s due to the hard work of black families, college admissions officers, and education advocates. But at...
Where were you on November 11, 2015? It was only a couple weeks ago, but already you may not remember. It was a humming but unexceptional news day. In the United States, protestors at the University of Missouri had just successfully ousted...
Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg's life is all about focus. In each image and time-lapse he captures, there's an incredible amount of activity going on, but our eyes tend to hone in on one particular aspect. This is no accident. "There's a large...
A woman accused of stabbing her three young daughters is on trial in Compton on murder charges. Carol Coronado's husband testified that she'd been "acting weird" before allegedly killing the girls and then stabbing herself May 20,...
In many cases, the storybook is a childs first resource that inspires, gives hope, and teaches the heros journey. Stories like Cinderella, Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast are sources of knowledge, happiness, and imagination....
Flu season is nearly upon us, and in an effort to limit contagion and spare ourselves misery, many of us will get vaccinated. The work of Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis has helped restrict the spread of the nasty bug for generations, and the influenza...
The average length of time served by federal inmates more than doubled from 1988 to 2012, rising from 17.9 to 37.5 months.1 Across all six major categories of federal crime—violent, property, drug, public order, weapon, and immigration...
* With 95% confidence intervals indicated with error bars. † Emotional or behavioral difficulties of children were based on parents' responses to the following question: "Overall, do you think that (child) has any difficulties in one or...
Governor Steve Beshear, Democrat of Kentucky, only has two weeks left in office, but he’s determined to go out with a bang. Beshear announced today that he is issuing an executive order restoring voting rights for nonviolent...
The U.S. may be bursting with wealth, but it's also the most unequal among advanced economies , with three-fourths of the country's wealth under the control of the richest 10%. [For more go to https://www.upworthy.com/a-map...ast-a-quadruple-take ]
For too long, we’ve taken gratitude for granted. Yes, “thank you” is an essential, everyday part of family dinners, trips to the store, business deals, and political negotiations. That might be why so many people have...
The past decade or so has seen the rise of a new formula for urban economic growth and development. While having a solid business climate that attracts companies and jobs remains important, it is also necessary to cultivate a vibrant, exciting...