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The New Yorker
5 August 2020
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Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte is a group of about 200 members, mostly mothers whose children are among the more than 73,000 people who have disappeared and presumably were murdered in Mexico's long drug war. Las Rastreadoras search the countryside for the unmarked graves of the missing, hoping to find their own children, often finding others'. In six years, they have found 198 bodies, 120 of whom were identified. What began spontaneously as one woman's search, then a group effort, has become a way to heal from the pain of what a psychologist calls "ambiguous loss" as well as an act of political activism.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/when-tragedy-strikes-come-together
David Bornstein
The New York Times
30 October 2012
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American families tend to handle grief individually and feel alone after the tragedy of losing a child. In Israel, communities communicate to the bereaving family their support by creating permanent and public memorials.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/how-conservative-tough-on-crime-utah-reined-in-police-milita
Evan McMorris-Santoro
Buzzfeed
1 September 2014
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The militarization of police forces in cases such as Ferguson, Missouri’s riots has led the state of Utah to question what can be done to prevent such an overuse of force from happening. Utah expanded upon a law passed by Democratic legislature in Maryland, which Utah’s ACLU reworked with some libertarians, to require the police to provide data about SWAT team usage. Utah’s success demonstrates that demilitarization bills passed with bipartisan support are not impossible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/rethinking-solitary-confinement.html
Erica Goode
The New York Times
10 March 2012
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A positive transformation in a Mississippi prison has become a focal point for a growing number of states rethinking the use of long-term isolation. Humanitarian groups have long argued that solitary confinement has devastating psychological effects, but a central driver in the recent shift is economics. Some officials have also been persuaded by research suggesting that isolation is vastly overused and that it does little to reduce overall prison violence.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/protecting-children-from-toxic-stress
David Bornstein
The New York Times
30 October 2013
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Child First is a program in Connecticut, where staff members deliver home-based parent guidance and child-parent psychotherapy to help prevent the detrimental physical and mental effects of toxic stress on children. The engagement is guided by an evidence-based methodology called Child-Parent Psychotherapy, which is grounded in collaborative problem solving.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/teaching-citizens-shoot-better-video-witness-brutality
Hari Sreenivasan
Judy Woodruff
PBS NewsHour
10 April 2015
Multi-Media / 5-15 Minutes
With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/05/24/nothing-but-the-truth#.tmZdaPOmJ
Robert Kolker
The Marshall Project
24 May 2016
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Historically, police interrogations of suspects have been brutal and have involved torture. These strategies have also produced a high rate of false confessions. The HIG method, which encourages conversation in a comfortable environment, has shown to be successful in revealing the truth and incarcerating the convicted with confidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/how-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth-got-a-little-bit-safer.html
Sonia Nazario
The New York Times
11 August 2016
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The gang-driven violence in Honduras has caused thousands to migrate to the United States. In the last three years, with emergency international aid from the United States, Honduras has experienced a 62 percent drop in homicides and has witnessed a decrease in the number of migrants entering the United States. The aid has gone toward community improvement projects and outreach centers, such as providing items for soccer games and other activities that dissuade gangsters from fighting each other. It also has supported more effective prosecution of homicides.
http://wisconsinwatch.org/2016/05/what-role-did-trauma-informed-care-play-in-alleged-juvenile-prison-abuse
Dee J. Hall
Wisconsin Watch
31 May 2016
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To reduce violence and aggreesion trauma-informed care become the new standard in Wisconsin for juvenile corrections. However, at the two highlighted facillities there has been greater violence and an investigation of abuse, but supporters still contend that when trauma-informed care is implemented correctly it is successful.
http://wamu.org/story/16/03/23/for_immigrants_at_maryland_high_school_band_program_builds_trust_note_by_note
Armando Trull
American University Radio (WAMU)
23 March 2016
Multi-Media / 800-1500 Words
In Prince George's County School system, two schools have offered international schools, which have a different curriculum for immigrants new to the USA. This has caused complaints and difficulties with the other students, the after school band program has helped bring the two groups together to socialize and form friendships.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mauraewing/riding-along-with-milwaukees-counselors-for-traumatized-yout?utm_term=.nj2ww7DYZ#.ehZjjy4L6
Maura Ewing
Buzzfeed
9 February 2017
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Police actions at a crime scene often exacerbate the victim’s trauma and trigger a person with mental illness who is going through a crisis. The Trauma-Informed Response Team in Milwaukee, is part of a national trend to train police officers in crisis intervention so they can identify signs of mental illness, and efficiently and safely get someone in crisis into the care of a mental health professional.
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