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Texas study may aid juvenile justice reforms

Sylvan Lane

June 22, 2015 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

An in-depth study of Texas youth crime records helped them find a path forward on juvenile criminal justice reform, but they still struggle with limited resources and a culture stuck on incarceration.

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Pozor, uprchlíci

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

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Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Česko odmítá uprchlické kvóty. Místní politici říkají, že společnost není na příchod a integraci utečenců připravená. Budují v lidech strach z toho, že migrace rozvátí zemi. Zcela odlišný obraz uprchlické krize nabízí sousední Bavorsko. Tato spolková země integrovala tisíce uprchlíků, kterým pomohla naučit se německy, najít si bydlení i najít a udržet si zaměstnání. Využívají k tomu dobrovolníky, kteří téměř po celém Bavorsku organizují vzdělávací a volnočasové aktivity.

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Watch Out for Refugees

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

Respekt |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Bavaria has integrated thousands of refugees into the public sphere by helping them learn German, find housing, and maintain employment through apprenticeship programs and other volunteer-run organizations in the community. Now, with Bavaria as an unlikely example, the Czech Republic looks to these program models in the wake of its own refugee crisis.

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In Los Angeles, a national model for how to police the mentally ill

Noelle Swan

June 15, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

How are people with mental illness policed in the U.S.? Unfortunately, often people with mental illness are sent to prison, instead of being treated. There are “10 times as many inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness in the penal system as patients in state mental institutes.” However, in Los Angeles police are paired with mental health clinicians. A move that is saving the city money, and keeping people out of prison.

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How some nail salons in California are finding a less toxic way to work

Monica Campbell

June 08, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Alameda, California

Nail salons offer services that often are toxic to their workers, from manicures causing acrylic dust in the air to the chemicals that can permeate through skin. Salon workers complain of respiratory problems and sometimes cancer. The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative offers certification in maintaining safe practices for their workers, offering an incentive for the use of ventilation equipment and gloves.

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Once forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation of female students

Sonia Narang

June 08, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Rama Arora defied tradition and secretly pursued her PhD as a young woman in India, succeeding at becoming the first female professor at a women's college. Now she is inspiring more Indian girls to further their educatione, so they can help bring about greater equality in society.

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Can gardening transform convicted killers and carjackers? Prison officials get behind the bloom.

Michael S. Rosenwald

June 07, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Westover, Maryland

Eastern Correctional Institution is just one of the nation's prisons that's using gardening and agriculture as a way both to improve prison and community food systems, and to give inmates a sense of worth.

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The controversial method that helped turn one of America's most murderous cities into one of its safest

Terrence McCoy

June 01, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

The Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond, CA took a radical new approach to urban violence by creating mechanisms to financially stabilize perpetrators of violent acts in crime-ridden neighborhoods - essentially paying people not to kill. They have been dramatically successful at weening violent criminals off the destructive behavior by using a comprehensive approach that includes using solid data, employing mentors with similar backgrounds to the criminals, and monetary incentives.

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How a School Network Helps Immigrant Kids Learn

David L. Kirp

May 30, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A nonprofit organization, the Internationals Network for Public Schools, delivers a first-class education to the children of illegal immigrants, helping to break the cycle of poverty and provide them a path to advance in life.

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Guiding Families to a Fair Day in Court

David Bornstein

May 29, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

Millions of families of arrested individuals do not know what to do to help, how to obtain a lawyer, or what the process entails in the court system. Created by Albert Cobarrubius Justice Project, participatory defense is a type of community organizing that teaches and empowers people who face criminal charges. Individuals know how to work with attorneys in order to navigate the system and ultimately feel equipped to become drivers of their own change.

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