Sarah Stillman, The List. The New Yorker, 14 March 2016. “When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentence.” When juveniles are charged with and found guilty of sexual misconduct, should they be on the registry of sex-offenders for decades?
Archives for March 2016
March 14, 2016
The List: Juveniles and the Sex Offender Registry
March 14, 2016 Filed Under: Children, Law, Sexual Abuse/Assault/Harassment Tagged With: adam walsh act, center on youth registration reform, impact justice, national center on the sexual behavior of youth, nicole pittman, public sex offender registry, texas voices for reason and justice, the moore center for the prevention of child sexual abuse at johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health, women against registry
March 4, 2016
Insult to Injury: The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
Michael Grabell, ProPublica, Howard Berkes, NPR, Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Yue Qiu, ProPublica, and Sisi Wei, ProPublica, Insult to Injury: The Demolition of Workers’ Comp. ProPublica and NPR, 4 March 2016. “Over the past decade, states have slashed workers’ compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers.”
One of three winners of the 2016 IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors) Award for Investigative Journalism. “Judges’ comments: This project masterfully details how states across the nation have dismantled their workers’ comp programs, cutting benefits and sticking taxpayers with a growing bill for injured workers. Tackling an often overlooked topic, the reporters built databases tracking legislative changes in each state over the past dozen years, obtained benefit plans from some of the country’s largest companies and combed through thousands of pages of depositions. They used heartbreaking stories and interactive tools to present complex material in an elegant way. Their work paid off in legislative changes in several states, investigations and a wider discussion about needed changes. We are awarding this project an IRE Medal for its wide impact and its fresh approach to showing how employers continue to benefit at the expense of workers.”
March 4, 2016 Filed Under: Corporations, Health Care/Medical, Labor, Poverty Tagged With: jl paul leigh (health economist at the university of california at davis), medicaid, medicare, occupational safety and health act of 1970, social security disability, workers' compensation laws