Say no to mass incarceration!

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In states with the largest prison populations, people of color constitute over 89 percent of the for-profit inmate population in California, 71 percent in Texas and 65 percent in Arizona. Nearly half of all undocumented immigrants detained by the U.S …
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West Lemon Hill neighbors oppose halfway house for federal parolees

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The state licenses substance-abuse treatment centers for "a couple of hundred" inmates at any given time in Sacramento County, but most of those facilities are not residential, said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Bill …
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Experimental Gene Therapy Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Offers …

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Clinical researchers at UC Davis Medical Center and a handful other research centers around the nation are testing a high-tech drug designed to fix the underlying genetic defect causing the progressive muscular decline that is seen in children with …
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What heals traumatized kids? Answers are lacking

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"We really don't have a gold standard treatment right now," said William Copeland, a psychologist and researcher at Duke University Medical Center who was not involved in the report. A lot of doctors and therapists may be "patching together a little …
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