juvenile detention

The Straws That Break the Camel’s Back

Tim Barrus, the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html#commentsContainer&permid=108456967:108456967 Theoretically, someone could have multiple diseases. And public health, as we know it, is the answer. Malaria. Covid. TB. HIV. Are you kidding me. I have been visiting other public health systems versus just the one I am intimately acquainted with where I…

Rape As Punishment In Juvenile Detention Has to Stop

The Department of Justice estimates that one in every three boys referred to juvenile justice detention is raped. I used to wonder what it might take for people to care enough to put a stop to it. I was naive to put it mildly. Institutions employ rape as overt victimization.…

the waffle house poems

i knew he’d be in there he was he was wanted by the cops for shoplifting at fifteen, he had avoided all the traps the hoodie obfuscated his face from the cameras his tongue was not much given to a torrent of words maybe you might get one word grunts…