This excellent, extensive article speaks VOLUMES about the need for adequate MH care, a field of medicine unknown in most states! It is just too long for me to edit it wisely, but if you know any juvenile in prison, you should read it!   READ it here! In the spring of 1998, Kipland Kinkel, then 15, shot and killed his mother, his father and two students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. He wounded 25 others. At the time, the...

What a tragedy that a great nation like ours fails to correct two serious problems: 1) too damn many guns, and 2) too little help for millions of people with undiagnosed and untreated MH afflictions! Here is another reminder of the consequences…   Excerpts from the Article: A cashier is dead and two people were wounded after a shooting broke out following an argument inside a Georgia store Monday afternoon over its COVID-19 mask policy,...

Much more of expenditures like these is needed! “Strategic investments in our justice system are crucial and have tremendous social benefits for entire communities.”   Excerpts from the Article: Three projects put forward by Berks County will receive over $884,000 in grant funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD,) according to Sen. Judy Schwank, Rep. Mark Rozzi and Manny Guzman. Berks County will also...

As my friend, great lawyer Steve Hampton, said when he sent me this article: being a federal judge does not mean you are not crazy!  This one is scary crazy!   Excerpts from the Article: On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez, a George W. Bush nominee, held that California’s long-standing ban on assault weapons violates the Second Amendment. The ban has been affirmed by the people of California, through both legislation and a...

This is good, smart, policing. Obviously, Texas’ tRumpian governor does not get it!    Excerpts from the Article: Despite being the capital of the nation’s largest Red state, Austin, Texas, is as liberally Blue as a city can be, proudly sporting the motto “KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD.” Whether weird or empathetic, Austin has made great strides toward diverting money from its police department to improve law enforcement-related functions and to...

Good for him, speaking out about it.  Our prisons are full of people, getting NO treatment for their mental health issues, so the more attention to this huge problem, the better!  Many of these inmates would be ok, not break the law, if they had adequate help!   Excerpts from the Article: For Harry, returning to London to attend Prince Philip’s funeral last month meant once more facing a place where he felt trapped and hunted by cameras....