Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.
Environment
Sep 26, 2020
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When states turn to private prisons, the number of criminals incarcerated rises and the length of sentences increases.
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2020
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New research from The University of Queensland has called for an end to solitary confinement in Queensland prisons because of the impact on the mental and physical health of prisoners.
Social Sciences
May 18, 2020
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New research shows that a visitor's garden designed and built by Iowa State University students and incarcerated individuals at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women is helping to strengthen connections between the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2020
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When "Britain's most notorious bigamist," Emily Horne, was handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence in 2009 for marrying five times without ever divorcing, her gender caught many off guard.
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2020
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A community in southern Thailand has offered a reward for catching whoever stole dozens of unhatched eggs of an endangered turtle species.
Ecology
Jan 6, 2020
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Several years ago, Maya archaeologists from the University of Bonn found the bones of about 20 people at the bottom of a water reservoir in the former Maya city of Uxul, in what is now Mexico. They had apparently been killed ...
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2019
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Formerly incarcerated individuals with barriers to re-entry and service needs following their release are subsequently more likely to experience poor physical and mental health, according to an eye-opening new Rutgers University-Camden ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2019
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Studies of the societal effects of prison often focus on the imprisoned: their physical and mental health, job prospects after release, their likelihood of returning to jail.
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2019
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Weary after a day's work on the water, Albanian fisherman Ilir Neziri peers down with disappointment at his small haul of carp from Shkodra, the largest lake in southern Europe.
Ecology
Nov 7, 2019
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