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‘A jail within a jail’ -Mental Healthcare in jails and prisons

The three largest providers of mental health care in America aren’t in hospitals, they’re in jails. According to a 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Justice, about 37 percent of people in prison have a history of mental health problems. More than 24 percent have been previously diagnosed with major depressive disorder, 17 percent with bipolar disorder, 13 percent …

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Here Today, Where Tomorrow? How Changes To Recycling Management Have Shifted Systems In The U.S. 

Recycling has been growing exponentially for years, but it wasn’t until recently that cities have found issues with the abundance of recycling and contamination issues from it. Junior Correspondent Katrine Bruner reports on the impact that contaminated recycling has on the City of Bloomington and Monroe County. It’s the crack of dawn and as many citizens of Bloomington are asleep …

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