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• What are the benefits of prison libraries? April 10, 2013
  In February 2012, Best Colleges Online released an article on the “15 Amazing Effects of Prison Libraries.” The article explains how prisons have “long been at the center of much social, political, and even philosophical debate”… what prisoners should have, what can be used to rehabilitate them and so on. Further debaters discuss whether the [...]
• Selena Teji On California’s Broken Juvenile Detention System August 18, 2011
  In 1858, the San Francisco Industrial School, California’s first large juvenile facility opened its doors and ushered in a new era of large dormitory-style institutions that would plague California to the present day.  Rife with scandal, abuse, violence and a significant deficit of programming, congregate care institutions have proven a failed model since the 19th...
• KIDS COUNT: Georgia Ranks Near Bottom of States Due to Increased Poverty August 17, 2011
  For the third year in a row, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Book ranked Georgia 42nd overall. The KIDS COUNT report ranks states by measuring the health and safety of children using a variety of indicators. Georgia ranked in the bottom half of all indicators nationally. The study found 37 percent of...