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For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School safety agents,” she said, using their official job title, “ … should not exist at all.”
John Scarabaggio’s near-death overdose is a story that’s heard far too often on Staten Island, where prescription drug abuse is rampant.
At a children’s summer party last Saturday afternoon at the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Penny Wrencher made an introduction between two friends. “This is Nene,” Wrencher said to Taylonn Murphy, “She lost her daughter, too.”
It was the tail-end of rush hour on a Thursday in March, and commuters were packed tightly onto a Brooklyn bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Not all of them got out alive.
Since getting out of prison Xavier McElrath-Bey has been helping Chicago youth leave their violent lives behind.
Many drug laws have punishment lengths that do not fit the crime, some experts are saying.
The television premiere for Remember Me Sue, a documentary film about one woman’s 50-year dedication to an after-school center on Chicago’s South Side, is set to be aired on PBS Chicago at 9 p.m. Thursday. In the midst of the civil rights movement in 1961, Sue Duncan founded the Sue Duncan Children’s Center and became a mother figure to the many African American youth for whom the center cared.
Thousands of young adults are missing out on getting a clean start in life.
Males remain a largely invisible population within the dialogue on sex trafficking.
Young LGBTQ residents tell stories of New Orleans' darker side that affects their lives.