US prisoners with mental illness at greater risk of solitary confinement
A new study has found high rates of punitive isolation among incarcerated people with serious mental illness, with three times as high a rate of solitary confinement as for similar incarcerated people without mental health problems.
Air pollution causing thousands of deaths in Massachusetts
Air pollution is responsible for an estimated 2,780 deaths a year in Massachusetts, and for measurable cognitive loss in children exposed to fine particulate pollutants in the air they breathe, according to new research.