No Drugs, No Crime and Just Pennies for School: How Police Use …
WEBFeb 18, 2019 · No Drugs, No Crime and Just Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture. In the past two decades, the federal government took in $36.5 billion in assets police seized from people on America’s roads and in its poorer neighborhoods, many of whom never were charged with a...
'Children Are Different:' Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
WEBAug 30, 2019 · Recent legislative reforms and judicial decisions may signal that states are beginning to scale back on “tough on crime” policies by changing how courts treat juveniles in the criminal justice system. Tough on crime policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s increased the number of juveniles charged as adults—viewing them not as children or delinquents but as fully formed criminals. But ...
No Bars, No Chains, No Locks: How Finland Is Reimagining …
WEBNov 16, 2021 · A former worker’s colony, Vanaja became an open prison in the 1990s. Next door is a farm and one of the prisoners is a caretaker of the sheep. The land is sprawling green and the 50 prisoners walk unattended. The men imprisoned there wear electronic monitors but no chains. There are no cages and no locks.
Covering Global Conflict - Pulitzer Center
WEBAndre Maygr tries to comfort 16-year-old daughter, Masha, as they say goodbye to each other, possibly for the last time, while Masha and her mother, Luda, wait to load a Team Humanity van to be evacuated from the war sieged …
Dhaka’s Challenge: A Megacity Struggles with Water, Sanitation …
WEBAug 29, 2010 · Already, this megacity faces rising real estate prices, exponentially growing slums, poor quality housing, unreal traffic jams, nagging electrical blackouts, stifling air pollution, poor governance, inadequate clean water supply, and poor sanitation. If population estimates hold true, Dhaka is expected to …
Carlisle and the Indian Boarding School Legacy in America
WEBNov 21, 2018 · Carlisle was the beginning. Founded in 1879 by U.S. Army General Richard Pratt, the first government-funded off-reservation boarding school for Native American children was created to assimilate Indigenous Americans into the dominant white culture. Students were forced to abandon their language and …
How the Threat of Nuclear Winter Changed the Cold War
WEBApr 5, 2016 · As the United States and the Soviet Union amassed terrifying arsenals during the height of the Cold War, Dr. Carl Sagan tried to warn the world about the dangers of a "nuclear winter." "Beneath the clouds, virtually all domesticated and wild sources of food would be destroyed," Sagan said. "Most of the human survivors would starve to death.
The Legacy of India’s Quest to Sterilize Millions of Men
WEBOct 1, 2018 · In some parts of the country, poor men and women were offered plots of land in exchange for getting sterilized, or for “motivating” others to do so. In 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men. Permanent methods of birth control remain very popular in India, but today women bear almost the entire sterilization burden ...
Pakistan: The Making (and Breaking) of Malala Yousafzai
WEBDec 30, 2012 · The young girl who had curried compassion suddenly came to be seen as an agent of Western designs in Pakistan. Malala was seen after the attack as nothing but a victim who suffered at the hands of one side or the other. As she continued to struggle in the hospital, her life's work took on a fictitious hue.
The 1619 Project Reading Guide: Quotes, Key Terms, and Questions
WEBJun 1, 2020 · The 1619 Project Reading Guide: Quotes, Key Terms, and Questions. Resource Overview: The 1619 Project, a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia with a series of essays, images, stories, and poems that challenge readers to reframe their understanding of U.S. history by considering 1619 as the ...
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