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"For Their Own Protection": Children in Long-Term Solitary Confinement

...  Their Own Protection": Children in Long-Term Solitary Confinement If we believe that juveniles are inherently less responsible for their actions than adults – and more susceptible to rehabilitation – then it follows that their punishments should be less severe. Given the severity of the punishment, prohibiting … Read more on Reason Letters for September 26, 2013 Letters Readers discuss the prisoner-rehab problem and the importance of education. Bites Is it a license to deport? … Essay The writers of Breaking Bad ...

Heroin Rehab Centers

  Heroin Rehab Centers – Rehab.   5 Mental Disorders Linked To 1 Genetic Variation; Schizophrenia And Bipolar … The first sign of a common link among these five diseases came in a report earlier this year that involved more than 300 scientists at 80 research centers in 20 countries. That study only pinpointed regions … between autism and schizophrenia. If the … Read more on Medical Daily Read more... ...

No Room for Marijuana at Beer-Soaked NASCAR Event, Ad-Sellers Say

...  to serious health problems. It also claimed marijuana doesn't cause hangovers or result in fatal overdose, and that pot is not linked to violence or reckless behavior. The … Read more on Mintpress News First Death In California Prison Hunger Strike Has Both Sides Pointing Fingers This, according to human rights groups, is a form of torture and inhumane treatment. The Center for Constitutional Rights reports that Juan Mendez, a United Nations special rapporteur, found that stints in solitary confinement as short as 15 days … Read more on Mintpress News Read ...

RCMP and Ontario's Muslims: Can They Get Along?

...  and Ontario's Muslims: Can they get along? Uneasiness about the force continued for many Muslims following what some saw as unfair treatment of the Toronto 18, particularly the lengthy periods of solitary confinement before trial. … But Christian Leuprecht, associate professor of political … Read more on Toronto Star Fairfax coed strives to improve lives of troubled teens Youth Villages this year will serve more than 20,000 children and families in 11 states and Washington, D.C., through intensive in-home services, residential treatment, foster care and adoption, transitional living services, mentoring and crisis … Read more on Fairfaxtimes.com Read ...

Depression Help Online: Loneliness Quotes

‘Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty’.   Mother Teresa. Loneliness is a natural emotion of all human beings. It is such a horrible feeling that no one wants to experience it even in his dreaded dream. It is so painful that a person going through it feels completely lost, as if something has crushed his spirit. A numb, persistent feeling of nothingness takes hold of him. A black, void space fills his heart giving him the feeling of totally devastation. Read more... ...

Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement –an

...  to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement –An … In response to hunger strikers at Pelican Bay, the New York Times in an editorial on August 1, 2011 entitled "Cruel Isolation," lamented that "For many decades, the civilized world has recognized prolonged isolation of prisoners in cruel conditions to … Read more on OpEdNews North Stonington officials take some tough advice on housing, economy That could be accomplished by increasing accessory apartments, putting deed restrictions on ...