We recently received an annual report from the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that primarily works with poor defendants/prisoners who have not received fair treatment in the US court and corrections systems. One of their… Read More »Equal Justice Initiative
I recently received the September 2010 issue of CRUcial Times published by CRU Inc. in Brisbane, Australia. I recommend getting on their email list to receive this publication. Back issues are also available. Below are… Read More »September 2010 issue of CRUcial Times (Australia)
This commentary from the Chronicle for Higher Education relates to our recent post about imprisonment. A few SRV points from the commentary: • The importance of competency enhancement in supporting devalued and vulnerable individuals/groups in… Read More »commentary: ‘Doing time, with a degree to show for it’
This Boston Globe op-ed piece about prisons and the high rate of incarceration in the US raises many SRV relevant points, such as: • the pervasive influence of non-programmatic factors, such as the employment and… Read More »op ed: ‘The prison boom comes home to roost’
This newspaper article could be the basis for a useful exercise for an SRV workshop or in a college class. It touches on a class of societally devalued people and related service structures that will… Read More »Newspaper article: ‘Starting Life Over’
This article and this one minute Japanese video describe a robot teddy bear: The hope is to use them for “robot therapy” in geriatric medicine for patients that suffer from dementia, says Fujitsu. In SRV… Read More »Robot teddy bears for elders