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  • The cycle of punitive justice starts in schools. Eric Butler is showing kids and teachers how to break it.

    November 01, 2020 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Selma, Alabama

    Hundreds of schools nationwide use restorative justice to respond to student disciplinary problems differently. In place of police, arrests, and suspensions, restorative practices emphasize conflict mediation through dialogue, asking how to hold people accountable without necessarily punishing them. Such programs have helped reduce suspensions and referrals to criminal or juvenile courts markedly, and reduced racial disparities. This story follows one man, a formerly incarcerated murder victim's brother, as he takes on the difficult task of introducing restorative practices to punishment-minded schools.

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  • This Medical Team Is Working To Reach Those Most At Risk For COVID-19

    November 01, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    A group of health care workers and social workers formed to help connect hard-to-reach communities in Hawaii to COVID-19 testing and information about the pandemic. So far, they have been able to test more than 200 people who were showing symptoms or who had been at high risk of exposure. The director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority has also reported that compliance with mask-wearing and other safety measures has increased since the effort began.

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  • In Michigan, Undocumented Immigrants Form Learning Pod So They Won't Lose Their Jobs

    November 01, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Undocumented parents face unique challenges to pandemic learning. Some don’t speak English or might not have access to Wi-Fi. To help, an activist in Michigan created an in-person learning hub for students of undocumented families in grades K thru 12. The hub was hosted in a church and provided 24 students with computers from the district, and support from teachers and tutors. The hub was funded through donations from the community.

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  • How can Georgia make it easier to vote?

    November 01, 2020 |

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Some locations, such as North Carolina and the extremely populous Harris County, Texas, have enacted solutions that make voting easier and take less time. In addition to early voting running up until election day, the North Carolina Board of Election issued an emergency order requiring one polling site per 20,000 registered voters. Harris County, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, expanded the early voting period and offers “drive-thru voting” at 10 locations using portable voting machines. The county also had over 100 locations that were open for 24 consecutive hours.

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  • Africa turns to telemedicine to close mental health gap

    November 01, 2020 |

    The Lancet |

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    Response Location: Ghana

    Even before the coronavirus pandemic limited access to health care facilities, health specialists across Africa were already beginning to turn to technology-based mental health services to offer care with fewer barriers for patients. Despite its growth in use during the pandemic, some doctors caution that it does not necessarily replace in-person consultations, but is still very useful.

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  • Minority US contact tracers build trust in diverse cities

    October 31, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    A contact tracing program jointly launched by San Diego State University and San Diego County is helping to combat misinformation and dispel fears for immigrants, refugees, and minorities in San Diego by employing ethnically and racially diverse community members. The contact tracers help those who need to quarantine devise a plan to do so safely, while also acting as community health care workers to help those families get the necessities they need.

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  • 'I'm not invisible': Kentucky millennials with felony records head to the polls for first time

    October 31, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    More than 170,000 people with felony records in Kentucky won the right to vote in the 2020 election under an order by the governor. Although not as concrete as legislation, the governor's order at least temporarily rescinds the state's permanent voting ban for most people with felony convictions. The order pertains to people with non-violent offenses. Unlike some states' re-enfranchisement policies, Kentucky's does not require payment of outstanding fines or restitution. The policy is seen as a particular benefit to people of color and millennials.

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  • How Cook County Jail Became the Country's First Jail-Based Polling Place

    October 30, 2020 |

    Belt Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    As the first jail to serve as a polling place for the people incarcerated there, the Cook County Jail saw the highest number of votes cast in a primary election in decades during the spring primary. On two weekends of early voting for the fall general election, more than 2,000 people cast their ballots, nearly 40% of the jail's population. In jail, in-person voting has several advantages over mail-in voting, which in the past was the only option, as at all other jails. Because most people held there have not been found guilty, they are eligible to vote. Illinois also allows same-day registration.

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  • Speaking their language: How NOLA advocates connected Spanish speakers to healthcare during the pandemic

    October 30, 2020 |

    The Current (Louisiana) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The coronavirus pandemic has caused many healthcare practice to move to a virtual space, but for Spanish-speaking communities, telehealth wasn't a solution on its own. In New Orleans, interpreters, doctors, and patients are working together to coordinate care at one clinic, while another clinic has used personalized text messages in Spanish to stay in communicaiton with patients.

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  • SLO County child care is hard to find and even harder to afford. Here's how to fix it

    October 30, 2020 |

    San Luis Obispo Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, San Luis Obispo, California

    Affordable childcare options are far and few between in San Luis Obispo but one effective solution has been the result of businesses subsidizing child care. Onsite daycare centers are available to employees at discounted rates and child-care workers are considered employees which gives them access to benefits. The important perk keeps turnover low - a common issue in the industry.

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