sheldensays.com

Background variables such as race and family income/education predicts who graduates from college. This is a good read: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html

Study makes reference to the correlation between religious belief and various measures of social dysfunction including homicides, the proportion of people incarcerated, infant mortality, sexually transmitted diseases, teenage births, abortions, corruption, income inequality, etc. Religion’s Smart People Problem: The Shaky Intellectual Foundation for Belief

Los Angeles Times Special on the Wrongfully Convicted: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-exoneree-national-20141220-story.html#page=1

A must see - Why Washington is corrupt. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Crime Mapping in Los Angeles: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/

Within South L.A.'s killing zone, a haven from violence

See also this interactive map of homicides: http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/blog/page/1/

Update: LA Homicide: South Vermont Avenue: L.A. County’s ‘death alley’

In the News

NEW!! Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons

" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.1dfeec058dd9

Mike Males on the ineffectiveness of youth curfews

Charter School Insiders Now Admit Public Education Can't Be Remade In Wall St.'s Image; related story:

Billionaire Funded Charter School Juggernaut Hits Roadblock in Los Angeles

Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prison

Mike Males critiques "brain science" argument: Enough Nonsense on Youthful (In)competence

Kids suffering in Flint - several stories related to bad water (see my commentary):

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34307-brain-damage-children-suffer-the-consequences-of-anti-regulation-in-michigan

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/flint-michigan-lead-water-crisis.html?_r=0

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bad-decisions-broken-promises-timeline-flint-water-crisis-n499641

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flint-lead-water-crisis-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-e-mails-reveal-details/

The 2015 Corporate Rap Sheet

A Child Is Shot To Death Every Other Day In The U.S.

Gunmaker Smith & Wesson up almost 100% in 2015

Which States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook School Massacre

San Bernardino Massacre: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

In Other Countries, You’re as Likely to Be Killed by a Falling Object as by a Gun; NRA donations to politicians

See how the GOP responded: GOP Blocks vote on gun law: Tough Talk and a Cowardly Vote on Terrorism

Mike Males: Misdirected Juvenile Justice Consensus Creates Backwards Policy

Why Does America Arrest So Many People—And How Can We Stop It?

Criminals Should Get Same Leniency as Corporations, Judge Says

We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus

General Motors will pay $900 million to settle criminal charges related to its flawed ignition switch that has been tied to at least 124 deaths.

Texas student says he’s falsely accused of making ‘hoax bomb’ and then withdraws from school

Suit Alleges Scheme in Criminal Costs Borne by New Orleans’s Poor

Everyone should read this: http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-poverty/ne.html

How Sports, Military, Police and the Security Industry, Mixed with Trauma, Creates Modern Dangerous Macho Men

Differing perceptions of Waco, Baltimore bothering some

Kids challenge ignorant state legislators! You must watch this! http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/students-persist-despite-lawmaker-failings-417136195647

Debra Jean Milke, Arizona woman who spent 22 years on death row, has murder case tossed

Ohio court awards wrongly imprisoned man over $1 million

4 Numbers That Prove America Is a Deeply Messed Up Place

State to close juvenile correctional facility north of Las Vegas - see old commentary I wrote: Close Summit View

Now they want to reopen it again!

This is no joke! Proposal to Allow Guns in Day Care Centers and Schools in Nevada - See my commentary

8 Logical Fallacies That Fuel Anti-Science Sentiments

Two new commentaries by Mike Males addresses myths about kids:

Only Certain Young Victims Matter; Millions of new dollars to fight Chicago "youth violence" -- but no new ideas

6 Companies That Make Their Money Ensnaring People In Our Prison System

An Update: Remains of 55 bodies found near former Florida reform school (for previous stories about this click on "Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" (above left corner of page) and scroll down.

How Private Probation Companies Make Money From the Americans They Trap in the Criminal Justice System

Excellent piece my Mike Males: CNN, “Experts” Reiterate the Press’s Ethic: It’s OK to Lie about Kids

Study shows increase in religious-related violence

Walking While Black - Basketball players again!

Half of all black men arrested, study shows: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/half-of-blacks-arrested-23_n_4549620.html

Standing While Black: 3 Black Students Arrested for Waiting for School Bus

16-Year-Old Jailed at Rikers for 3 Years Without Trial

Two Poverty Related Items addresses big myths about the Poor

Paul Krugman: A War on the Poor

Dave Johnson: Six Myths About Food Stamps

The Public Health Cost of Gun Violence

Use of tough federal sentencing laws varies widely nationwide