Bodies that Matter: Improving Pediatric Health Care Among the Incarcerated
Three years after being released from state prison, 24-year-old Valentino Valdez, struggling to find treatment for mental health issues, was hospitalized for suicidal ideation. Cycling through detention facilities had strained […]
Irredeemable? Why Juvenile Life Without Parole Fails Our Youth
At 16 years old, Edward Simms stood in a Virginia courtroom and was told by a judge that he was ‘irredeemable.’ Raised in a single-parent household by a mother who […]
“We Are Talking About Children”: Overworked Public Defenders and Youth Access to Justice
“It is a moral failure for young people to become system-involved in the first place,” said Alice Wilkerson, executive director of Advance Maryland and the Advance Maryland Education Fund, reflecting […]
Institutional Religious Freedom Under Executive Power
A recent forum convened by the Brookings Institution and Wake Forest University School of Divinity brought together legal scholars and public leaders to examine how the Trump administration has approached […]
Institutional Religious Freedom in 2025 and the Work Ahead
In 2025, across the courts, Congress, and federal agencies, questions of institutional religious freedoms, about how faith-based organizations (FBOs) participate in public life, have surfaced repeatedly. For those of us […]