In 2010, approximately 12 per 100,000 people in the United States committed suicide. That same year, the suicide rate in county jails across the nation was three times greater than the general population. In New York state prisons, the inmate suicide rate was nearly double the national average.
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It was a Friday afternoon in late May, just a few weeks before the school year would end and students would be huddled on curbsides waiting for ice cream trucks to make their hourly rounds.
But for one teacher, six weeks was too long. That afternoon, she turned in her keys and her grade book. “I won’t be in on Monday and I’m quitting teaching — and that’s that.” -
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Megan Devlin speaks with Alex Colket, the 33-year-old founder of Swidjit.com, a new website that uses social networking to encourage a shift towards a localized economy.
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Ithaca College students and professor arrested in landmark civil disobedience case to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Why meds alone won’t ever clean up mental illness By Megan Devlin Many refuse to acknowledge the pervasion of mental health disorders in society, especially…