Afterward: When Violence Occurs in Alabama, the State's Concept of Justice Leaves Out the Voices of Many Victims, Survivors, and Their Communities

Crime and punishment drive Alabama politics. Every time a major story about crime or violence or prisons breaks in the news, there is backlash from Alabama law enforcement and lawmakers calling for even more punitive measures in response. That backlash often provokes passionate responses from advocacy groups who point toward existing failures in our system of mass incarceration and raise concerns about the likely effects of making our justice system even harsher.A few survivors' voices occasionally rise to the surface. But the people who have the most power to create or change laws and policies in the wake of violence bear little resemblance to the people who are most harmed by it. Meanwhile, the cycle continues. Afterward is an effort to broaden the discourse and bring unheard voices into the conversation where they belong

A Bitter Pill: Prisons Have Become the Deadly Epicenter of Alabama's Addiction Crisis, Even As the State's Response Begins to Show Signs of Success Elsewhere

Every year from 2012-2020, Alabama ranked first in the nation for opioid prescriptions per capita. Since 2014, the opioid addiction has claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 Alabama residents who died by overdose, and disrupted the lives of countless more.Since 2017, many state agencies have collaborated successfully via the Alabama Opioid Overdose and Addiction Council to chart a better path. The state has invested in treatment and peer specialists and reframed addiction as a public health issue, not a moral failing. For people who manage to steer clear of jails and prisons, things are starting to look up. But the combination of harsh criminal laws, the nation's highest opioid prescription rate, and Alabama's under-resourced jails and violent and dysfunctional prisons mean that many of the people who need treatment most are not getting it. Instead, they are dying preventable deaths in record numbers. Something must change

Under Pressure: How fines and fees hurt people, undermine public safety, and drive Alabamas racial wealth divide

Each year, Alabama's municipal, district, and circuit courts assess millions of dollars in court costs, fines, fees, and restitution. Most of this money is sent to the state General Fund, government agencies, county and municipal funds, and used to finance pet projects.This hidden tax is disproportionately borne by poor people – particularly by poor people of color. In Alabama, African Americans are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at higher rates than white people. For example, while African Americans and white people use marijuana at roughly the same rate, African Americans are over four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession in Alabama. This report is an eort to examine, in detail, the collateral consequences of Alabama's court debt system and explore the ways in which it undermines public safety and drives the state's racial wealth divide. It is a product of our work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt, which is developing strategies to lessen the impact of criminal and civil judicial fines and fees, as well as medical fees and high-cost consumer products, on communities of color.We surveyed 980 Alabamians about their experience with court debt, asking how court costs, fines, and fees had affected their daily lives. Study participants included 879 "justice-involved" individuals who were paying their own court debt for offenses ranging from traffic violations to felonies, and 101 people who did not themselves owe court debt but were paying debt for other people. We analyzed results for the two groups separately and conducted a further analysis of the 810 justice-involved individuals who had also helped others pay off their debt

Timely screening of toddlers for perinatal Hepatitis C transmission

Introduction: Approximately 5% of infants born to mothers with chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) will acquire an vertically-transmitted infection. Untreated HCV in children can be devastating with onset of cirrhosis, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma within the first 15-20 years of life. Current national guidelines recommend delaying testing for HCV transmission until the infant reaches 18 months of age due to maternal antibody transfer. However, it is difficult to track the perinatal risk factor for 18 months during well-child care. The purpose of this project was to improve the process of tracking this exposure by increasing the use of the Problem List and creating an automated reminder to providers at 18 months that antibody testing is due. Materials and Methods: A simple data request for QI was submitted to the Informatics Core to identify how many children were born at UNMH with the ICD10 diagnosis of Perinatal HCV Exposure between Jan 2016 and June 2019. This set of data was also queried for how many were tested for the virus. Next, we worked with the UNMH Clinical Applications team to create a new item in the Health Maintenance tab of PowerChart. This item Perinatal HCV Exposure activates when children are 18 months old, and is resolved by ordering HCV Antibody Testing. In order to populate with the item, the child must have the diagnosis in their active Problem List. As part of this effort, we also reached out to the inpatient providers who care for infants. Results: Initial data showed that in the 2.5 year period from Jan 2016-June 2018, 247 children were given the diagnosis of Perinatal HCV Exposure, an average of 99 children per year. In conversation with clinical providers, we suspected that relatively few (maybe as low as 50%) were being given the diagnosis in the problem list of the electronic medical record, so there could be as many as 200 children born per year with exposure. Many providers stated that they only put the diagnosis in the text fields of the History and Physical or Discharge Summary, not in the Problem List. Of the 247 with the diagnosis, only 88 (36%) had antibody testing. Prior to implementation of the new Health Maintenance item, the medical directors of Outpatient Pediatrics, Outpatient Family Medicine, Newborn Nursery, Mother-Baby Unit, Intermediate Care Nursery, and Newborn ICU were contacted. The medical directors were provided with educational materials and fliers to hang in the provider workspaces to remind providers to put the diagnosis into the Problem List. The new Health Maintenance item went live on November 14th 2019. Data query to compare the pre- and post-implementation rates will take place in January 2020. Conclusions: Tracking infants with perinatal HCV exposure for 18 months prior to testing is a challenge, but is one that can be alleviated by intelligent utilization of the electronic medical record. By creating a Health Maintenance item for Perinatal HCV Exposure, we anticipate improved testing incidence for affected children. Work is ongoing to improve this process, which has the potential to positively benefit many children per year. Future efforts should include infants who leave the UNM system for primary care to ensure follow-up for the HCV exposure

Winter Wheat Row Spacing and Alternative Crop Effects on Relay-Intercrop, Double-Crop, and Wheat Yields

In Missouri as well as much of the Midwest, the most popular double-cropping system was winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) followed by soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr). These two crops can also be used in an intercrop system, but optimal row spacing was important to increase crop productivity. Research was conducted to evaluate (1) winter wheat inter- and double-crop production systems, using a variety of alternative crops, and (2) the impact of different wheat row spacings on intercrop establishment and yields within the various cropping systems. Field research was conducted during droughts in 2012 and 2013. Spacing of wheat rows impacted wheat yields by 150 kg ha−1, as well as yields of the alternative crops. Narrower row spacings (150 kg ha−1) and the double-crop system (575 kg ha−1) increased yield due to the lack of interference for resources with wheat in 2013. Land equivalent ratio (LER) values determining productivity of intercrop systems of 19 and 38 cm row showed an advantage for alternative crops in 2013, but not 2012. This signified that farmers in Northeast Missouri could potentially boost yield potential for a given field and produce additional forage or green manure yields in a year with less severe drought

Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other by Eric Nelson, SUNY Press, 2020 pp. 480

This is a number of reviews and responses to Eric S. Nelson\u27s Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of Materials Other (2020) SUNY Press. This includes: The Relation of the Ethics of the Material Other to the Rights of the Stranger by Emilia Angelova Nelson\u27s Defense of Asymmetrical Ethics: On Religion and Human Rights by Curtis Hutt On Nelson and East Asian Philosophies by Leah Kalmanson Author Response: The Ethics of the Material Other and the Right of the Other by Eric S. Nelso

Economic development with equity: case study of Market Creek Plaza community development IPO in San Diego, CA

As the economic core of inner cities has declined, economic developers have searched for revitalization strategies to spur sustainable economic growth while addressing inner-city poverty. A two-pronged approach to address both of these efforts simultaneously in inner cities is rare. The Market Creek Community Development Initial Public Offering (CD-IPO) is a model project designed both to create economic re-development of a brownfield inner-city site, and to provide a community-based asset-building opportunity for low- and moderate-income neighborhood residents to combat the incidence of poverty. The Market Creek CD-IPO was "issued" in 2006 for a ten-acre, $23 million commercial real estate development in San Diego, CA. It was the result of an effort by the Jacobs Family Foundation to design a unique project to meet the needs of the Diamond neighborhood in southeast San Diego. Through an offering of "shares" in the commercial real estate deal, lower- and moderate-income residents of the Diamond neighborhood were able to invest in about 20% of the total ownership of the Market Creek shopping center project in 2006. This case study will describe the particular Diamond neighborhood demographics and the role of the Jacobs Foundation in initiating the Market Creek project, and explore the investment structure and regulatory hurdles faced by the unique structure of the Market Creek CD-IPO, and the investment model it represents. Finally, this paper will offer a critique of some of the challenges and opportunities inherent in the Market Creek CD-IPO model.Master of City and Regional Plannin

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