The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still relevant to today’s incarcerated population.
- Senior Lecturer, Center for Study of Human Health, Emory University
A quarter of prisoners report a cognitive, intellectual or developmental disability. But the true figure could be even higher.
Police are almost always the first responders in cases of mental health crisis. Too often these encounters turn bad, even deadly. But police were never meant to be in charge of US mental health care.
Autism has gone from a rare disorder to one that affects one in 68 children in a few decades.
Technologies that predict the possibility of a neurological disorder have the weight of affecting conceptions of not just “what” these children have but “who” these children will become.
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