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Top Cops and Prosecutors Form Alliance to Battle Crime and Prison Crowding
By Simone Weichselbaum Leaders of the nation’s major police departments announced on Wednesday that they have joined forces with current and former federal, state and local prosecutors in an alliance to reduce crime as well as the country’s swollen prison population. The group, which calls…
Author: The Marshall Project
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How Nebraska Repealed the Death Penalty
A deep-red state shows the way, with conservatives in the lead. By Shari Silberstein On Wednesday, Nebraska senators voted 30-19 to override a gubernatorial veto and end the death penalty. Nebraska’s Senate maintains a uniquely non-partisan structure, but each senator’s party affiliation is well known…
Author: The Marshall Project
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Cross-comunity shared teacher for NI schools
Children who attend two small mid-Ulster primary schools of separate religious traditions have become classmates through the first shared teacher to be appointed in Northern Ireland. There are just 65 pupils combined at Desertmartin Primary, a Church of Ireland maintained school, and Knocknagin Primary, a…
Author: UTV News
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School health centers expand despite lack of state funding
By Louis Freedberg. Two of the state’s largest districts are undergoing a major expansion of health centers on school campuses after promised help from Sacramento never came. To build new facilities, Oakland and Los Angeles are tapping a combination of voter-approved bond money, fees from…
Author: California Watch
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Community Organizing Never Looked So Good
Original Source The Center for Community Change is an Atlantic grantee. By SARA RIMER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. QUINN RALLINS, 23, graduated magna cum laude last year from Morehouse College with a dual major in international studies and Spanish. This spring, Mr. Rallins is finishing his master’s degree in…
Author: The New York Times
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First Named Professorship Established at John Jay With Funding From Ford Foundation and Atlantic
Renowned Scholar Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff is appointed as Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity Dr. Phillip Atiba GoffNew York, NY – President Jeremy Travis of John Jay College announced the establishment of the Franklin A. Thomas Professorship in Policing Equity, created with $2.5…
Author: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Filling the Void
Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners–25 entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can’t stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin–all beckon as explicit…
Author: Fast Company
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