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  • For Police, a Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness

    Erica Goode

    April 25, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In response to high-profile shootings of people with mental illness, police departments around the country are turning to crisis intervention training.

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  • Prisons Rethink Isolation, Saving Money, Lives and Sanity

    Erica Goode

    March 10, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    A positive transformation in a Mississippi prison has become a focal point for a growing number of states rethinking the use of long-term isolation. Humanitarian groups have long argued that solitary confinement has devastating psychological effects, but a central driver in the recent shift is economics. Some officials have also been persuaded by research suggesting that isolation is vastly overused and that it does little to reduce overall prison violence.

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