A group of former Los Angeles County jail inmates said Monday that a recent legal settlement between the Sheriff's Department and federal authorities will perpetuate the cycle of people with untreated mental illness bouncing back and...
Register at: http://themindfulnesssummit.com/ Schedule: DAY 1 Professor Mark Williams : An Introduction To Mindfulness DAY 2 Joseph Goldstein : Practical Guidance On Mindful Living & Overcoming Common Obstacles DAY 3 Dan Harris : From Sceptic to Meditator. Dan Shares How He Tamed The Voice In His Head & How You Can Too DAY 4 Jono Fisher : Mindful Masculinity, Conscious Capitalism and Kindness DAY...
The latest batch of nationwide FBI crime data , released Monday, shows that in 2014, violent crime in the U.S. continued its long decline. The murder rate was down. The robbery rate was down, too. "The story is actually better than we all...
During his 17-day stay in jail, 32-year-old David Stojcevski lost 50 pounds, hallucinated, and experienced seizures and convulsions. It was all caught on a security camera that jailers were supposed to regularly watch. But no one helped —...
California is spending nearly half a billion dollars more on corrections than it did four years ago, even though state prisons house almost 30,000 fewer inmates, according to a study released late Monday by the Public Policy Institute of...
How did you decide to focus on the students at Lincoln? Sadly, kids who have grown up exposed to chronic and traumatic stress often suffer neurological and physiological consequences that make it harder to learn. The teachers and administrators...
After something like Wednesday's school shooting, there's one thing on everyone's mind - how did this happen? As students and parents try to cope, we sit down with a mental health expert to find out what triggers young people to act out in...
Jesse Opela hunched on a plastic chair in the "music room" at Central Juvenile Hall, a cramped space with no air conditioning, an old CD boombox, a keyboard and a bookshelf filled with aging bestsellers. Tears rolled down the sturdy...
Students who have experienced trauma could be eligible for some of the same protections as students with disabilities based on the effects of that trauma, according to a ruling by a federal judge Tuesday. But the degrees, types and effects of...
On a Saturday night in late May, I sat in the back seat of a taxi as it drove through a shantytown in Baghdad. We were not far from Firdos Square, where, in April of 2003, invading American troops famously toppled a large statue of Saddam...
Please join us on our upcoming webinar, "Achieving Access for Parents and Children", which is brought to you by Defending Childhood in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention and Futures Without Violence. This webinar...
I had a crappy childhood and I spent most of my life overweight struggling to control my food intake and literally couldn't help myself around food. What I learned was it wasn't a lifestyle choice, because no one wants to be fat. It was a problem with...
Correctional facilities have to provide health services to people who are incarcerated, but that doesn't mean the care is free of charge. In most states, inmates may be on the hook for copayments ranging from a few dollars to as much as $100...
"A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station," reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. "A transit cop" —...
Sarah Daniels stood at the front of an auditorium on the University of Michigan campus and looked out at the 120 or so students before her on an unseasonably cool day in late August. The first day of classes was about two weeks...