A Guest Opinion Piece
Troubled children too often graduating to adult prisons
By J. Richard Cohen
President, Southern Poverty Law Center
The United States may be faltering as an economic powerhouse, but we’re still No. 1 in one important category: locking people up. With one out of every 100 adults behind bars, we’re ahead of China, Rwanda, Cuba and [...]
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It looks like Lori Drew – the too-involved-in-her-daughter’s-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself – will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out the conviction, the L.A. Times [...]
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SPRINGFIELD — The mother of an 11-year-old Springfield boy who committed suicide because he was allegedly bullied at school is scheduled to testify before Congress.
Sirdeaner Walker is scheduled to talk about school safety on Wednesday before the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities.
Walker’s son, [...]
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A mixture of administrators, advocates and students agreed Wednesday that schools must promote character education and raise awareness among their students, staff and faculty of the safety risks and dangers of bullying.
Speaking before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, witnesses examined strategies for limiting violence, bullying and harassment [...]
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