Rape is rampant at this women’s prison. Anyone who complains is punished, lawsuit says.

Rape is rampant at this women’s prison. Anyone who complains is punished, lawsuit says.

Mike Langenright
Criminal Justice News, National News

For years, male officers at the women’s work camp at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex sexually harassed and assaulted inmates in what amounted to a “sanctuary” for systemic abuse, a space where they were shielded from any consequences.

If the women complained about being groped, fondled or forced to perform sex acts on officers, the inmates were the ones who were punished.

To Build Emotional Intelligence in Students, Start With the Adults. SEL Pioneer Marc Brackett Helps Schools Do Both in ‘Permission to Feel’

To Build Emotional Intelligence in Students, Start With the Adults. SEL Pioneer Marc Brackett Helps Schools Do Both in ‘Permission to Feel’

Mike Langenright
Education

Now the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Brackett runs a social-emotional training program, RULER, that has taught educators and students in more than 2,000 schools what it means to understand and manage their emotions. RULER is now being used by the largest school district in the country, New York City, with its 1.1 million students, and Brackett is helping lead Connecticut’s effort to have the first emotionally intelligent statewide education system.

New York City Council Pushes De Blasio Admin: What’s the Plan for Troubled Youth Detention Centers?

New York City Council Pushes De Blasio Admin: What’s the Plan for Troubled Youth Detention Centers?

Mike Langenright
Juvenile Justice News, National News

New York City Council confronted Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration today on a steady increase in the use of force in two youth detention facilities.

“We all agree there’s a problem, the numbers lay that out,” said Manhattan Councilman Keith Powers (D), chair of the Criminal Justice Committee, to a group of administration officials who appeared to testify. “What is the game plan between now and next year to improve those numbers? … What programs, services or staffing?”

‘Raise the Age' juvenile initiative in North Carolina begins in December

‘Raise the Age' juvenile initiative in North Carolina begins in December

Mike Langenright
Juvenile Justice News, National News

RALEIGH, N.C. - Significant changes to North Carolina's justice system for young offenders and sex-related offenses begin this weekend.

No longer will 16- and 17-year-olds be automatically tried in adult court for most nonviolent or less serious felonies as the state's long-awaited "Raise the Age" initiative takes effect. Victims of child sex abuse will have more time as adults to seek civil damages against perpetrators. And, a court decision preventing women from legally revoking consent is getting overridden.

19 Educators We’re Thankful We Met in 2019: Meet the Inspiring Classroom Heroes We Couldn’t Stop Raving About This Year

19 Educators We’re Thankful We Met in 2019: Meet the Inspiring Classroom Heroes We Couldn’t Stop Raving About This Year

Mike Langenright
Education

Throughout this eventful year, staff at The 74 have been inspired by the talented, dedicated, caring teachers we’ve had the privilege of writing about. There’s the Colorado math instructor who became a foster father to a student so the boy could get a kidney transplant. A mentor-mentee pair in the South Bronx with a year-long focus on improving performance, both among students and at the front of the classroom. Three survivors of the Columbine High School massacre who, as teachers, have borne witness to the grim transformation of their schools, spurred by gun violence. A Teacher of the Year who helps his students at a Virginia juvenile justice center reclaim their lives even as he teaches history.

Three men exonerated 36 years after being convicted of Baltimore teen's murder

Three men exonerated 36 years after being convicted of Baltimore teen's murder

Mike Langenright
Criminal Justice News, National News

BALTIMORE — Three men have been exonerated, 36 years after being convicted of murdering a 14-year-old Baltimore teenager.

"This journey here for us has been rough," Ransom Watkins said. "We outside them, walls but on the inside — I hate to put it like this — we went through Hell. It wasn’t easy. You see us out here. we’re smiling, we’re happy that we’re free, but we got a lot to fix.”

Rise in incarceration discussed at MNSU

Rise in incarceration discussed at MNSU

Mike Langenright
Ideas and Opinions

The Wiecking Center auditorium was packed Thursday afternoon for speaker Emily Baxter’s talk entitled “We are all criminals”.

Baxter started her talk with a powerful statistic – one in four people in the U.S. have a criminal record. But Baxter is a firm believer that four in four people have a criminal history, meaning everyone has taken something that isn’t theirs. Someone has drunk underage or done illegal drugs. Someone has broken even the smallest of laws, and the only reason they are not in the criminal justice system is because they “have the luxury to forget,” as stated by Baxter.

Michigan youth suicide rate doubles. What parents can do.

Michigan youth suicide rate doubles. What parents can do.

Mike Langenright
Local News, Research Topics

Michigan parents have good reason to be concerned. Bridge found: 

  • In a five-year time period ending in 2009, about 10 Michigan girls aged 12 to 18 years old committed suicide each year, compared to about 17 a year over a five-year span ending in 2017.

  • About 37 boys of that same age committed suicide each year in the five-year time period ending in 2009. In the years leading to 2017, that had risen to nearly 57 boys a year.

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