The Bail Trap
Every year, thousands of innocent people are sent to jail only because they can’t afford to post bail, putting them at risk of losing their jobs, custody of their children — even their lives.
Read more in The New York Times.
Division in Christian Higher Ed
Union University, in Tennessee, has quit the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, saying it cannot remain in a Christian group in which some member institutions will hire people in same-sex marriages.
Read more in Inside Higher Ed.
Homeless woman’s case sharpens focus on justice system and mentally ill
The list of Trishawn Cardessa Carey’s prescriptions fills a page in her case file: clonazepam for seizures and panic, methocarbamol for muscle spasms and quetiapine for spells of psychosis. She suffers delusions, paranoia and “dramatic mood swings.”
For years, the homeless woman has lived off Social Security tied to her mental disability — a doctor diagnosed
San Francisco slaying upends immigration debate in 2016 presidential race
The immigration debate in the 2016 presidential campaign unfolded along familiar lines: Republicans called for greater border security and Democrats called for expanded rights for those in the country illegally.
All that changed one blue-sky day at Pier 14 on San Francisco’s world-famous Embarcadero. A 32-year-old woman was killed July 1 while strolling with her father
Milestone for Disability Studies
The University of Toledo is starting the nation’s first full undergraduate major in disability studies, an interdisciplinary field that already has considerable scholarly interest and graduate options.
A generation or two ago, students interested in disabilities “had to invent our own programs,” finding faculty members in various disciplines who had an interest in the subject, said
L.A. County task force suggests ways to divert mentally ill from jails
Cutting the number of mentally ill inmates in Los Angeles County’s jail system would require spending tens of millions of dollars on new treatment facilities and housing for offenders who would otherwise be released into homelessness, a long-awaited report concludes.
A task force of public officials and mental health advocates convened by Los Angeles County Dist.
Parents of grown children with developmental disabilities worry about future
The doctors told Elizabeth Criss that a child with her daughter’s disorder would only live until she was 8.
She would suffer from seizures, the doctors said. She would likely be unable to communicate and would have problems with her vision.
Almost all of that was true, except Emily Criss is now 29.
“We never expected she would
Most Undocumented Immigrants Will Stay Under Obama’s New Policies, Report Says
Under new immigration enforcement programs the Obama administration is putting in place across the country, the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants — up to 87 percent — would not be the focus of deportation operations and would have “a degree of protection” to remain in the United States, according to
No room at the inn for innocence
The children gather at dusk on the pitted motel parking lot, hard against the sound wall of the freeway. They kick a scuffed soccer ball and play with the stray dogs they have rescued. One holds a cockroach he pretends is a pet turtle.
Eddie Martinez, 14, rides his bike among them, happy they are
A dose of reality on homelessness
Four years ago, after a long and desperate search for housing in San Francisco, I moved my daughter into a studio apartment on a seedy stretch of Market Street, between a tavern and what police described to me as a “parolee hotel.”
For a few years, things went well. My college-student daughter learned to coexist with