US jails are warehouses of sick, poor and low-risk people

• Understanding the conflict - All the actors and stakeholders involved in the process of risk management as well as the exposed population have not a rational

On information given to the victims, this article makes no reference, in the case of children, to including the expertise of NGOs or agencies most appropriate to deal with children

obvious two-pronged solution is to scale down the financial impositions, gradually but persistently, and -- here’s the hard part -- to come up with alternative sources of funding for

11 JULY 2014 ¦ GENEVA - Failure to provide adequate HIV services for key groups – men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and

In general, prisoners do not receive health care that meets public health standards.. Each year, many Americans with chronic diseases

This is especially important to the NAACP, given the disparate rate of racial and ethnic minorities who currently occupy our nation’s jails and prisons (more than 60% of the people

This in- cludes high-quality background checks that focus on risk (e.g., history of impulsive angry behaviour) rather than mental ill- ness, temporary restrictions of gun access

1) Enact the Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health Act of 2015 in the US Senate and House of Representatives (S. 993 in the Senate, HR 1854 in the House), and similar state