Jamaica High School, in Queens, was once the largest high school in the United States. For most of its history, it occupied a majestic Georgian Revival building on Gothic Drive, designed in the nineteen-twenties by William H. Gompert, who had...
It's obvious that jail isn’t good for the jailed. It may be particularly bad for people accused of minor crimes, who are confined not because they are likely to be dangerous but because, under our cash-bail system, they can’t afford...
Looking at Danielle Barcheers, it's impossible to imagine her as a killer. The perky 34-year-old often wears a smile and makes repeated apologies for the "mess" in her spotless cell. She comes off like a beam of light amid the 1,640...
T HE TIP CAME IN at about 7 p.m. on Monday, July 27. It was an email from a woman named Patricia Cronan, a banker who lived next door to a group home in Long Beach, California. She said the home, run by a nonprofit called Bayfront Youth...
Paramedic Jacob Modglin parks on a palm-lined street in Oxnard and jumps out of his ambulance. He is prepared for any kind of emergency. But his patient is standing in the driveway of a one-story house, holding a thermos, and smiling. It's time...
Jeffrey R. Kaiser, MD , of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and colleagues found that transient hypoglycemia (<35 mg/dL) in a newborn was associated with the decreased likelihood of proficiency on literary achievement testing (adjusted...
It looks as if New Jersey is taking steps to end the very trauma INsensitive, trauma-UNaware practice of adjudicating crimes of youth 14 and under in criminal court. Instead, treatment will become the focus. They are definitely on the right...
Over the past few years the states o f Washington ($144 million) and Indiana have been sued successfully for many millions of dollars for failing to protect abused and neglected children. In Arizona,...
My favorite subject is writing to heal trauma. In this article, author Suzette Martinize Standring interviewed me about this topic. And as those of us who have read or are reading Childhood Disrupted - we know Donna Jackson Nakazawa...
Cat Kim, a recent graduate from Columbia Law School, had two missions this summer. One was studying for and taking the California bar exam. The other was preparing cases for immigrant women and children in Texas detention centers who, without...
People whose diabetes requires insulin injections usually have to make a series of visits to the doctor's office to fine-tune their daily dosage. But many low-income patients can't afford to take those few hours off to see the doctor. As a...
A year after demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson launched the Black Lives Matter movement, some of the most prominent voices in the campaign to reform policing in the United States introduced a detailed list of specific...
Officer Jon Carson lights up when he speaks about teaching mindfulness techniques to officers with the York Regional Police . "My goal for policing is to say, here's a tool for you. You have all these other things on your belt. You...
Erin Okuno erin@allfivesinfive.org It feels like equity is the new buzzword. It has become the new “diversity.” My question is, “How are you defining equity?” I ask because it feels like we have different definitions. I...
With the Obama administration focused on reducing the number of suspensions, expulsions and arrests in public schools , a new analysis of federal data identifies districts in 13 Southern states where black students are suspended or...