Thanks to bipartisan efforts, the number of incarcerated Americans has shrunk dramatically. The next step for reform is to treat inmates more humanely.
Harold Pollack
Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
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I’m (Almost) Glad for All That Blatantly Anti-Semitic Hatemail
If you’re not in the public eye, you should know that this is going on.
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Helping Those Affected By Community Violence
I attended a lovely event for Bright Star Community Outreach last night. The event commemorates the launch of a new Turn Center to provide trauma-informed services. Congratulations to Pastor Chris Harris and his colleagues in this important effort. Congratulations also to my University of Chicago Medical Center and Northwestern Hospital colleagues who have taken lead […]
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The Prime Minister of Singapore on Implications of Rejecting TPP
TPP isn’t perfect, but we shouldn’t reject it either.
Posted inHealth Care, June/July/August 2016, Magazine, Special Reports
Better Police Training
Learning to interact with people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
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The 59th Street METRA Station, 25 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act
And this was a nice day. On the sunniest day, Hyde Park residents with disabilities, a 12-year-old Laboratory School student who uses a wheelchair, a University of Chicago visitor, student, staff member, or faculty member with impaired mobility cannot use the nearest train station marked “University of Chicago.” My 84-year-old mother might want to see […]
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Unsolicited Advice to Moderate Republicans (Yes, I See You)
Trump will lose, probably in ignominious fashion. You don’t want any part of that. It’s shocking but true that I have Republican friends. Some are mainline conservatives, pro-life, or otherwise drawn to a Republican social policy agenda. Others are close to the Republican Party on Israel, or are socially liberal but conservative or libertarian on […]
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Better mental health care: The Right Answer to the Wrong Question in Preventing Violence
Yesterday’s Washington Post has a nice story under the self-explanatory headline: Most mass shooters aren’t mentally ill. So why push better treatment as the answer? Drawing on work by Columbia University forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone, Post reporter Michael Rosenwald notes that a surprisingly small fraction of mass shooters suffer from severe mental illnesses such as […]
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“Is Your Pain a 7 or a 10?”
My brother-in-law Vincent is now off on a short hospital stay due to an infection. Decades of morbid obesity compromised the circulation to his legs. He’s thus susceptible to chronic infections and sores that require IV antibiotics and other interventions. The hospital nursing staff has been quite kind. Vincent is having a good stay, made […]
