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December 2017

Sentenced to Life Without Parole As a Juvenile: Donald Scott | Age 61 [jjie.org]

For more than a decade I have interviewed more than 1,000 kids in 35 states. What of these kids who were sentenced to long sentences and JLWOP, life sentences without parole? These kids become adults who become geriatric. These are the people I have interviewed for the past year. These are their stories. There are more than 2,000 people — juveniles serving life without parole all over the country. These are some of their voices. These are their faces. This is a series by Richard Ross that...

A Veteran Wonders: How Will My PTSD Affect My Kids? [theatlantic.com]

Bowen screamed, “You’re dead.” The boys were in the backyard. I had consented to let them play with their Nerf guns. Bowen was chasing Zachary. The bullets whizzed out in automatic fire. Bowen’s finger was mashed down on the trigger. Zachary was running frantically side to side trying to dodge the foam bullets. They bounced off his back and neck. One deflected off the Murcott tree. Bowen kept firing, and it wasn’t long until his 18-round magazine of foam bullets was empty. Realizing this,...

Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage [npr.org]

It has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act , with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care for any other condition. Yet today, amid an opioid epidemic and a spike in the suicide rate, patients are still struggling to get access to treatment. That is the conclusion of a national study published Thursday by Milliman, a risk management and health care consulting company. The report was...

Why Redneck Revolt Says Deal With Racism First, Then Economics [yesmagazine.org]

There is no shortage of media commentary discrediting “identity politics,” particularly the focus on Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and immigrant communities calling for justice and equity. Economics is our real problem, a counter argument goes, not race, sex, gender, citizenship. But as author Nancy Isenberg points out in White Trash, “identity has always been a part of politics.” Laws have been written to oppress and exploit particular identities—Native Americans, Black Americans, Asians,...

 
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