Humanity Archive
Confusions and uncertainty in sexual identity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.A few weeks ago the Boston Study Group thought about confusions and uncertainty in sexual identity and how this plays out in action. The contrast would be people …
Ending homelessness is a lofty goal for the Kindling Group, a team working towards solutions for critical social issues. Social Workers aspire to provide safe shelter and resources for vulnerable populations. The @home game may be a way to combine …
By Patrick Heiman and Courtney Barthle “And the kids know my food stamps got cut off. Because when they came home from school today, they didn’t have their snacks. I really didn’t tell them why or anything like that, because …
By Jeff Wallace | March 30, 2016 (Part 1 of 2) Solitary confinement is a practice that has been used in the U.S. prison system since 1829. It is based on a Quaker belief that prisoners isolated in stone cells …
In January, California State Senator Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge) introduced a bill that aims to protect the right of California’s homeless to “rest” in public spaces. Senate Bill 876 would de-criminalize homelessness by ultimately limiting local sanitation and law …
By Daniel Macallair | March 16, 2016 Unprecedented declines in youth crime, combined with state policies designed to restrict state institutional commitments, have caused , as I wrote in a previous column. The crashing number of confined youths is not …
Millions of Us Are Affected by Draconian Prison Penalties By Kate Boccia | March 7, 2016 A crisis is defined as “a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events is determined.” It is …
By Amanda Sakuma While the political uproar has died down over the flood of unaccompanied minors caught at the U.S. border, the states taking in the immigrant children continue to grapple with how to welcome – or not – the …
The problems that forced the closure of the Children and Youth Welcome Centers in Los Angeles are not limited to the state’s largest county. Though there is some variation in how California counties deal with housing the children who enter their …
I just finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir last night. It was one of those books that is an easy engager from the first sentence. And, honestly, one of the few books I felt that the movie did justice …
