Justice

The year 2014 was filled with significant momentum towards a more equal nation for individuals identifying as LGBT. After dozens...

Earlier this year the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling unveiled plans for an £85 million secure young offender unit in Leicestershire...

The purpose of education in a democratic society is to instill the values of cooperation, fairness and justice into the...

In this age of personal responsibility and expressive individualism we are witnessing a rare expression of solidarity from athletes who...

It has taken a great amount of time for me to process what has happened over the past several weeks...

Everything I say below has been said before, but I want to make it clear that mine is yet another...

With the recent decisions of no indictment involving the police officers responsible for the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner,...

As a Social Worker who works in East Harlem with students who hail from all different ethnic backgrounds the current...

In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster...

The problems of mass incarceration and prison over-crowding are finding an unusually audience lately. Advocacy for prison reform is gaining...

These days it seems like there's an app for everything. If I can map my daily jog, surely I should...

During these past few weeks we have unfortunately seen high-profile violent killings committed by young people.  On October 15th, a...

In places as isolated as Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations, these satellite offices are essential to making voting a possibility...

A mother finds herself in a domestically violent relationship and she has children. Child Protective Services (CPS) becomes involved and...

Photo Courtesy Panoramio.com Sometimes social workers ask me how they can connect Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or spatial analysis to...

Brittany Maynard via Facebook On November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard will die. However, her death is being planned on her...

As I wrote in a article several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison...

The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from...

Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been...

By Irene M. Ota, College of Social Work and Irene H. Yoon, College of Education The unfolding events in Ferguson,...