Monday, June 25, 2012

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1:22 PM 6/25/2012 - Mike Nova's starred items: Offenders need integrated, on-going, mental health care


Offenders need integrated, on-going, mental health care
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A new report from Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University, and the Centre for Mental Health, suggests that prison and community ...
Convicts failing to receive help, says West studyThis is Cornwall

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Photo courtesy New York Times. In Paul Krugman's Editorial he makes clear that the “privatized half way houses” that former private prison lobbyist Gov. Chris Christie champions are hell on earth. However, he reminds us that ...

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Over the past few days, The New York Times has published several terrifying reports about New Jersey's system of halfway houses — privately run adjuncts to the regular system of prisons.


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Norway mass murder trial wraps up
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How do you cover a murder trial where there is no question mark over whether Anders Behring Breivik did it? He boasts that he did, and says that he wished ...
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The founder of Wikipedia has called on British officials to block the extradition of a 24-year-old British student wanted in the United States over alleged copyright offenses.


Tears and fascist salutes: Key moments in trial of Norway killer ...
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A trial that has riveted Norway for 10 weeks is coming to an end Friday. Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik must then wait a month or two for a ruling ...

The high court threw out the ability to send children to prison for life with no chance of ever getting out

 

 

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By Philip Caulfield The New York Daily News BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jailed thugs locked up alongside serial child molester Jerry Sandusky ridiculed him during his first stint at Centre County Correctional Facility in December, singing lyrics from a Pink Floyd song: "Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!" according to a report. A former inmate told tablet newspaper The Daily that the disgraced ...

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Reading offers Brazilian prisoners quicker escape
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BRASILIA, June 25 (Reuters) - Brazil will offer inmates inits crowded federal penitentiary system a novel way to shortentheir sentences: four days less for every ...

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It's Time To End Solitary Confinement in US Prisons
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In April, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace marked a grim anniversary. The two Louisiana State Prison inmates, both in their 60s, had been held in solitary ...
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Boko Haram Prison Break: Radical Sect Frees 40 In Nigeria
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A top radical Islamist sect member blamed for a deadly Christmas Day church bombing in Nigeria has been killed by security forces, ...
Sect member dies, prison break frees 40 in NigeriaFox News

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Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky had a surprise waiting for him when he was sent to jail the first time, reports Andrew Strickler of The Daily .

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Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected ...

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Smartphone addiction can affect your personality
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LONDON: Our obsession with latest technologies like smartphone, tablet or laptop may cause not only distraction, but it may also change our personalities, says ...

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via Journal of Addiction Medicine - Most Popular Articles by Montag, Christian; Kirsch, Peter; Sauer, Carina; Markett, Sebastian; Reuter, Martin on 6/19/12
Recent studies from Asia provided first evidence for a molecular genetic link between serotonergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission and Internet addiction. The present report offers data on a new candidate gene in the investigation of Internet addiction-the gene coding for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha 4 (CHRNA4). A case-control study was carried out. The participants were recruited from a large gene data bank, including people from the general population and from a university setting. A total of 132 participants with problematic Internet use and 132 age- and sex-matched controls participated in the study. Participants provided DNA samples and filled in the Internet Addiction Test Questionnaire. The T- variant (CC genotype) of the rs1044396 polymorphism on the CHRNA4 gene occurred significantly more frequently in the case group. Further analyses revealed that this effect was driven by females. Combined with the findings from other studies, the present data point in the direction that rs1044396 exerts pleiotropic effects on a vast range of behaviors, including cognition, emotion, and addiction. (C) 2012 American Society of Addiction Medicine


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Heroin addiction develops for a number of reasons that are as unique as the addict in your life. Professional help is often required to break this addiction.

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Do you have social media addiction? Are you trying to fight it? Don't! Use it for something good, so that you can build traffic to your blog.

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We can become addicted to things that make us feel “good” such as food, sex, video games, prescription medications, the Internet, alcohol or drugs. We can also become addicted to things that generally are considered a ...

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Drug-addicted veterans meet in special court in Brooklyn
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The military taught Nelson Guzman to be a perfectionist — so he learned to roll the perfect joint.

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Thankfully, even the most severely addicted people can make lasting recoveries with today's drug rehab programs. Due to medical advances over the last several decades, addiction specialists have been able to develop a myriad of effective ...

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Break the cycle of sexual addiction
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Sexual Addiction is eating away the society and the nation! It negatively affects the economy and propels wrong choices and poor decisions...

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Addiction should not be redefined as disease
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The American Society of Addiction Medicine in Aug. 2011 redefined addiction as “a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related ...

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Online game and internet addiction
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Game addiction has bred frightening crimes in the last few years including a 22-year-old man who killed his mother for attempting to stop him from playing and a ...

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How cocaine vaccines could cure drug addiction
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Could one shot cure a hard drug addiction? Researchers have developed not one, but two cocaine vaccines that show promise in blocking the highly addictive ...



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Hope Shines in Fight Against Heroin Deaths, Drug Addiction
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As the death toll from drugs in the suburbs continues to rise—three Antioch residents died last week of overdoses—residents found hope at the Take A Stand ...

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Smartphone Addiction Is Real … and Rampant
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A new study finds that staying connected is a national obsession, as 60% of people say they don't go an hour without checking their phones.

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For psychologists, pride comes in two flavors - authentic and hubristic. And the difference between these two kinds of prides is the difference between deadly sin and virtue. read more

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The money/sports nexus revealed by flash of underwearread more

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A right wing radio commentor blames increases in oral sex and throat cancer on Bill Clinton. Here's what the data actually show. read more

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It takes a crowdsource to raise a novel. How creative thinking and a few rejections can lead to an alternate route to literary success.read more


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South African Daffodils May Be a Future Cure for Depression
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Eric Lau sentenced to 22 years to life in death of teacher Jami Erlich
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LATEST OPINION ARTICLES. Unhappy with .... After several competency hearings and psychiatric evaluations, Kelly ruled April 19 that Lau was fit to stand trial.

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The New York Times has reported that in a remarkable turn of events prosecutors in Norway asked that Anders Behring Breivik be committed to a hospital rather than sent to prison. What seemed particularly significant was ...


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The study was carried out at the psychosis detection unit of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna. The department is located within the Vienna General Hospital, which has more than 30 other ...

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Recovering from early deprivation: attachment mediates effects of caregiving on psychopathology.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;51(7):683-93
Authors: McGoron L, Gleason MM, Smyke AT, Drury SS, Nelson CA, Gregas MC, Fox NA, Zeanah CH
Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Children exposed to early institutional rearing are at risk for developing psychopathology. The present investigation examines caregiving quality and the role of attachment security as they relate to symptoms of psychopathology in young children exposed to early institutionalization.

METHOD: Participants were enrolled in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a longitudinal intervention study of children abandoned and placed in institutions at or shortly after birth. Measures included observed caregiving when children were 30 months of age, observed attachment security at 42 months, and caregiver reports of children’s psychopathology at 54 months. At 54 months, some children remained in institutions, others were in foster care, others had been adopted domestically, and still others had been returned to their biological families. Thus, the children had experienced varying amounts of institutional rearing.

RESULTS: After controlling for gender, quality of caregiving when children were 30 months old was associated with symptoms of multiple domains of psychopathology at 54 months of age. Ratings of security of attachment at 42 months mediated the associations between quality caregiving at 30 months and fewer symptoms of psychopathology at 54 months.

CONCLUSIONS: Among deprived young children, high-quality caregiving at 30 months predicted reduced psychopathology and functional impairment at 54 months. Security of attachment mediated this relationship. Interventions for young children who have experienced deprivation may benefit from explicitly targeting caregiver-child attachment relationships.
PMID: 22721591 [PubMed - in process]

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Maternal sensitivity and attachment: softening the impact of early adversity.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;51(7):670-2
Authors: Drury SS
PMID: 22721589 [PubMed - in process]

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Eliminating Mental Health Disparities by 2020: Everyone’s Actions Matter.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;51(7):663-6
Authors: Bussing R, Gary FA
PMID: 22721587 [PubMed - in process]

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11:46 AM 6/24/2012 - Mike Nova's starred items



via NYT > Views by By JODI KANTOR on 6/23/12
Though optimistic in public, the White House in private is weighing its options in case the Supreme Court invalidates all or part of the health care law.

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Is Schizophrenia Really a Brain Disease?
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The American journal of psychiatry, 144 (11), 1474-6 PMID: 3674230 ... Recovery from schizophrenia: An international perspective: A report from the WHO ...

Genetic factors and family have been studied in combination with psychiatric diagnoses in general, and suicide risk in particular. Studies of twins show that monozygotic twins have greater concordance for suicidal behavior ...

They are classified as other comorbidities, because they do not result in the nomenclature of DSM psychiatric diagnosis and, although some of them seem to be complaints of behavior, however, they are somatic in nature.

The purpose of this study was to co-calibrate items from different deliberate self-harm (DSH) behavioural scales on the same measurement metric and compare cut points and item hierarchy across those scales. Participants included 568 young Australians aged 18–3 years (62% university students, 21...

Marcia A Voges, David M Romney
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Sex abusers prey on kids' trust, thrive on shame and fear, experts say
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22-to-life for Lau in Erlich murder
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Declining Testosterone Levels in Men Not Part of Normal Aging
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ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) — A new study finds that a drop in testosterone levels over time is more likely to result from a man's behavioral and health ...


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In addressing one of the most personal issues in sports — how to draw a line between male and female — the International Olympic Committee decided to use testosterone levels as the determining factor.

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Hundreds of hospitals have started to require that their nurses have at least a bachelor’s degree, fueling efforts by schools to make their nursing graduates more competitive.

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A reader says fake vaccination campaigns like the one used to track Osama bin Laden create suspicion and thus endanger lives.

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The sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is the subject of a new play by Mark St. Germain.

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The fourth part of the forensic psychiatric reference to our current advanced research based on the identification, forensic psychiatric appraisal of the above problems in a number of reform proposals put forward. The article ...

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This paper in Transcultural Psychiatry states that global mental health (GMH) research “appears to be using a monocultural model that is individualistic, illness-oriented, and focused on intrapsychic processes. Ironically ...

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www.psychoanalysis.org. The Psychoanalytic Fellowship for Doctoral Students in Psychology, Doctoral Students in Social Work, Psychiatry Residents, and Child Psychiatry Fellows, is a one-year program at the New York ...

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Dad's Brains Mean More to His Son's Success than His Money: Study
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Is Schizophrenia Really a Brain Disease?
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The American journal of psychiatry, 144 (11), 1474-6 PMID: 3674230 ... Recovery from schizophrenia: An international perspective: A report from the WHO ...

Genetic factors and family have been studied in combination with psychiatric diagnoses in general, and suicide risk in particular. Studies of twins show that monozygotic twins have greater concordance for suicidal behavior ...

They are classified as other comorbidities, because they do not result in the nomenclature of DSM psychiatric diagnosis and, although some of them seem to be complaints of behavior, however, they are somatic in nature.

The purpose of this study was to co-calibrate items from different deliberate self-harm (DSH) behavioural scales on the same measurement metric and compare cut points and item hierarchy across those scales. Participants included 568 young Australians aged 18–3 years (62% university students, 21...

Marcia A Voges, David M Romney
Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2003, 2:4 (1 May 2003)

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Sex abusers prey on kids' trust, thrive on shame and fear, experts say
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Though optimistic in public, the White House in private is weighing its options in case the Supreme Court invalidates all or part of the health care law.


Is Schizophrenia Really a Brain Disease? - Brain Blogger (blog)


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Is Schizophrenia Really a Brain Disease?
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The American journal of psychiatry, 144 (11), 1474-6 PMID: 3674230 ... Recovery from schizophrenia: An international perspective: A report from the WHO ...

Genetic factors and family have been studied in combination with psychiatric diagnoses in general, and suicide risk in particular. Studies of twins show that monozygotic twins have greater concordance for suicidal behavior ...

They are classified as other comorbidities, because they do not result in the nomenclature of DSM psychiatric diagnosis and, although some of them seem to be complaints of behavior, however, they are somatic in nature.

The purpose of this study was to co-calibrate items from different deliberate self-harm (DSH) behavioural scales on the same measurement metric and compare cut points and item hierarchy across those scales. Participants included 568 young Australians aged 18–3 years (62% university students, 21...

Marcia A Voges, David M Romney
Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2003, 2:4 (1 May 2003)

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Sex abusers prey on kids' trust, thrive on shame and fear, experts say
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The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry says child sex abuse is reported 80000 times a year. But experts acknowledge those numbers are just ...
Experts say depression and withdrawal is a sign of sexual abuseWTVR

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22-to-life for Lau in Erlich murder
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Declining Testosterone Levels in Men Not Part of Normal Aging
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ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) — A new study finds that a drop in testosterone levels over time is more likely to result from a man's behavioral and health ...


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In addressing one of the most personal issues in sports — how to draw a line between male and female — the International Olympic Committee decided to use testosterone levels as the determining factor.

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Hundreds of hospitals have started to require that their nurses have at least a bachelor’s degree, fueling efforts by schools to make their nursing graduates more competitive.

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A reader says fake vaccination campaigns like the one used to track Osama bin Laden create suspicion and thus endanger lives.

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The sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is the subject of a new play by Mark St. Germain.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

10:46 AM 6/23/2012 - NYT Review - Op-Ed Columnist: Prisons, Privatization, Patronage - via NYT > N.Y. / Region by By PAUL KRUGMAN on 6/22/12 - Mike Nova's starred items


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The halfway houses from hell in New Jersey are part of a broader pattern in which essential functions of government are being both privatized and degraded.

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Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

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Over the past few days, The New York Times has published several terrifying reports about New Jersey’s system of halfway houses — privately run adjuncts to the regular system of prisons. The series is a model of investigative reporting, which everyone should read. But it should also be seen in context. The horrors described are part of a broader pattern in which essential functions of government are being both privatized and degraded.
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First of all, about those halfway houses: In 2010, Chris Christie, the state’s governor — who has close personal ties to Community Education Centers, the largest operator of these facilities, and who once worked as a lobbyist for the firm — described the company’s operations as “representing the very best of the human spirit.” But The Times’s reports instead portray something closer to hell on earth — an understaffed, poorly run system, with a demoralized work force, from which the most dangerous individuals often escape to wreak havoc, while relatively mild offenders face terror and abuse at the hands of other inmates.
It’s a terrible story. But, as I said, you really need to see it in the broader context of a nationwide drive on the part of America’s right to privatize government functions, very much including the operation of prisons. What’s behind this drive?
You might be tempted to say that it reflects conservative belief in the magic of the marketplace, in the superiority of free-market competition over government planning. And that’s certainly the way right-wing politicians like to frame the issue.
But if you think about it even for a minute, you realize that the one thing the companies that make up the prison-industrial complex — companies like Community Education or the private-prison giant Corrections Corporation of America — are definitely not doing is competing in a free market. They are, instead, living off government contracts. There isn’t any market here, and there is, therefore, no reason to expect any magical gains in efficiency.
And, sure enough, despite many promises that prison privatization will lead to big cost savings, such savings — as a comprehensive study by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, concluded — “have simply not materialized.” To the extent that private prison operators do manage to save money, they do so through “reductions in staffing patterns, fringe benefits, and other labor-related costs.”
So let’s see: Privatized prisons save money by employing fewer guards and other workers, and by paying them badly. And then we get horror stories about how these prisons are run. What a surprise!
So what’s really behind the drive to privatize prisons, and just about everything else?
One answer is that privatization can serve as a stealth form of government borrowing, in which governments avoid recording upfront expenses (or even raise money by selling existing facilities) while raising their long-run costs in ways taxpayers can’t see. We hear a lot about the hidden debts that states have incurred in the form of pension liabilities; we don’t hear much about the hidden debts now being accumulated in the form of long-term contracts with private companies hired to operate prisons, schools and more.
Another answer is that privatization is a way of getting rid of public employees, who do have a habit of unionizing and tend to lean Democratic in any case.
But the main answer, surely, is to follow the money. Never mind what privatization does or doesn’t do to state budgets; think instead of what it does for both the campaign coffers and the personal finances of politicians and their friends. As more and more government functions get privatized, states become pay-to-play paradises, in which both political contributions and contracts for friends and relatives become a quid pro quo for getting government business. Are the corporations capturing the politicians, or the politicians capturing the corporations? Does it matter?
Now, someone will surely point out that nonprivatized government has its own problems of undue influence, that prison guards and teachers’ unions also have political clout, and this clout sometimes distorts public policy. Fair enough. But such influence tends to be relatively transparent. Everyone knows about those arguably excessive public pensions; it took an investigation by The Times over several months to bring the account of New Jersey’s halfway-house-hell to light.
The point, then, is that you shouldn’t imagine that what The Times discovered about prison privatization in New Jersey is an isolated instance of bad behavior. It is, instead, almost surely a glimpse of a pervasive and growing reality, of a corrupt nexus of privatization and patronage that is undermining government across much of our nation.

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A hundred years after his birth, the British mathematician Alan Turing -- the father of modern computing -- is being celebrated as a pioneer and mourned as a victim of intolerance.

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The hearing on whether Pedro Hernandez is mentally fit for trial was supposed to be held Monday.



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Sanity Hearing Is Postponed for Man Who Said He Killed Etan Patz


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A hearing to determine whether the man who confessed to killing Etan Patz is mentally fit to stand trial will be pushed back until Oct. 1, people briefed on the case said on Wednesday.
The man, Pedro Hernandez, 51, was scheduled to appear in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday, when the results of a psychiatric evaluation were to be filed with the court. But Mr. Hernandez’s lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, and the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., agreed to the delay.
The district attorney’s office has so far not presented the case to a grand jury for indictment, people briefed on the case said. Under state law, a confession must be corroborated by other evidence, something that could take time since Mr. Hernandez was not a suspect until very recently.
Mr. Hernandez was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge on May 25, exactly 33 years after Etan, 6, disappeared on the first day he walked alone from his home on Prince Street to a school bus stop. Mr. Hernandez had recently started working as a stock boy at a bodega on West Broadway.
The night before his arraignment, Mr. Hernandez was placed on a suicide watch and hospitalized. .
Mr. Fishbein said at the arraignment that his client had a ”long psychiatric history” that included diagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, with visual and auditory hallucinations.
Mr. Fishbein and officials in Mr. Vance’s office declined to comment on Wednesday.

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An appellate court was swayed by evidence that another man may have committed a 1989 Flatbush murder and that a key trial witness had recanted.

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Reality and our perception of it are incommensurate to a far greater degree than is commonly believed.

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How do hospitals and doctors arrive at the fees they charge? The not-so-simple answer is that it depends on what sort of deal their medical provider has negotiated with their insurer.

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Charges against four men marked the first time in at least two decades that the Brooklyn district attorney has pursued Hasidic Jews for intimidating someone who alleged sexual abuse.


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Michael Pena, a former New York police officer convicted in March of predatory sexual assault, pleaded guilty to rape counts on which the jury had been unable to reach a verdict.


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The jury verdict for the longtime Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky completed the fall of a onetime local hero in a pedophilia scandal that seized national attention.

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At Trial’s End, Lawyers Say Norway Killer Is Not Insane

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Anders Behring Breivik in court in Oslo on Friday.
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OSLO — The trial of Anders Behring Breivik ended on Friday with an unusual reversal of roles, as defense lawyers insisted that he was sane when he killed 77 people last year and should be sentenced to prison, and prosecutors arguing that he was mentally ill and thus not criminally responsible, and should be hospitalized instead.
The 10-week trial forced Norway to relive its worst peacetime atrocity in history and give a pulpit to a man whose views repulsed most Norwegians. It also brought into sharp relief the role of psychiatry in the country’s legal system and prompted calls for a review of the balance between insanity and guilt.
“It is a reverse situation, since they want him acquitted” by reason of insanity, Geir Lippestad, one of Mr. Breivik’s lawyers, said Friday, gesturing to the prosecutors on the opposite bench. “I say that their plea should not be accepted, and Anders Behring Breivik should be treated as leniently as possible.”
On the final day of the trial, survivors and bereaved family members spoke for the last time of their loss and pain, asking for Mr. Breivik to be locked up and forgotten. Their pleas were met with vigorous applause from the courtroom, and the panel of judges said they would deliver their verdict on Aug. 24.
Members of the defense team, in tears themselves as parents spoke about their slain children, evoked Mr. Breivik’s human rights in their conclusion that he should be held accountable for his crimes. Mr. Breivik has admitted to the killings but said they were committed in self-defense to combat what he has called the “Islamic colonization” of Europe. He has argued that an insanity judgment would detract from his cause.
“The defendant has a radical political project,” Mr. Lippestad said. “To make his acts something pathological and sick deprives him of his right to take responsibility for his own actions.”
Mr. Breivik set off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed eight people on July 22, 2011, then drove to a nearby vacation island, Utoya, and gunned down 69 more, mostly teenage members of the Labor Party youth wing.
Under Norwegian law, if a defendant was psychotic at the time of his crime, he cannot be punished. Mr. Breivik has been the subject of two conflicting psychiatric reports, one saying that he was a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic, the second that he had narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but was legally competent.
Experts said they were not aware of any previous case in Norwegian legal history in which prosecutors had called for an insanity verdict and defense lawyers had advocated conviction. “No one can know for sure,” said Geir Engebretsen, a judge at Oslo District Court who is not connected with the case. “But it has probably never happened before.”
Frode Elgesem, a lawyer for the Labor Party youth wing, said after the trial that it illustrated the need for legislation to overhaul a criminal justice system that allows prosecutors to argue for acquittal. Under Norwegian law, if the prosecutors “were in real doubt that he was not psychotic, they had to submit that claim to the court,” he said. The minister for justice, Grete Faremo, has said her ministry will investigate the role of forensic psychiatry in the judicial system.
On Friday, as Mr. Breivik gave a statement at the end of the day, around 20 survivors and family members filed out of the courtroom in protest.
In an hourlong, rambling warning about the evils of Norwegian multiculturalism, by way of “Sex and the City” and Tibet, Mr. Breivik drew laughter from the spectators. “I acted in the principle of necessity for my country, so I ask to be acquitted,” he concluded.
If the court finds that Mr. Breivik was sane, it can sentence him to a maximum of 21 years in prison, though he can be held past the end of his sentence if he remains a danger to society. If it accepts the prosecutors’ argument, it can order him held indefinitely for compulsory treatment.
Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris.

Friday, June 22, 2012

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Sensory gating describes neurological processes of filtering out redundant or unnecessary stimuli in the brain from all possible environmental stimuli.[1][2] Also referred to as gating or filtering, sensory gating prevents an overload of irrelevant information in the higher cortical centers of the brain. The pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus play a major role in attention, and filter out unnecessary information.[3] Although sensory gating is largely automatic, it also occurs within the context of attentional processes. Though the term sensory gating has been used interchangeably with sensorimotor gating, the two are distinct constructs.[4]
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