Day: January 13, 2016
Helping Drug-Addicted Inmates Break the Cycle
DEADLY BIAS: Why Medication Isn’t Reaching the Addicts Who Need It, Part II © Getty Images Two inmates likely going through painful opioid withdrawal in a jail in Portland, Maine. About 65 percent of the nation’s 2.3 million inmates are addicted to drugs or alcohol, but few get the medications that could help them beat […]
What We’re Reading: Top State Stories 1/13
FL: U.S. Supreme Court deals blow to Florida’s death sentencing system usatoday.com The court struck down Florida’s system of letting judges, not juries, decide whether convicted criminals deserve the death penalty. LA: Louisiana governor signs Medicaid expansion nola.com Newly inaugurated Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an executive order making Louisiana the 31st state, and the first in […]