Can a New Twist on a Native American Tradition Help Solve America's Prison …

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That hypothesis has been tested in more than 60 Southern California public schools since 1992, when Council was introduced as a way of easing racial tensions after the Rodney King riots; a recent survey found that teachers, administrators, and students …
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California prisons' solitary units – necessary or inhumane?

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The segregation unit at California State Prison, Sacramento, houses convicts removed from the general population because they've committed crimes while incarcerated or are affiliated with notorious prison gangs that prison officials say control drugs …
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City of Malibu Issues Violation Notice to Passages Drug Rehab

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La Monte, who serves on the Housing & Economic Development Policy Planning Committee of the League, said when 45 people from 20 different towns all over California showed up to talk about rehab centers, “I knew it wasn't just a whiny Malibu problem.
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Chronicle AM — March 12, 2014

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Medical marijuana is keeping state legislators busy, Maine's governor has a 20th Century approach to drug problems, New Mexico's governor cuts funds to a diversion program, Indonesia shifts its stance on drug users, and more. … The medical research …
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