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Manifest 2015

Marching toward Manifest 2015

By Campus Editor
May 4, 2015

Exploring gender in the classroom: Columbia students seek feminist education

By Managing Editor
May 4, 2015
Voices From Juvenile Detention: Kids Behind Bars It sounds harmless: “pre-trial detention.” But the reality is far different. In a squat block building in Laredo, Texas—and in similar places around the nation—children await trial or placement in concrete cells while the underlying issues that led to their behavior fester. Some are addicts who need treatment; others are kids battling mental illnesses. Many are angry and have been virtually abandoned by absentee or irresponsible parents. Some spend a few days, others months, but despite the efforts of a small corps of dedicated professionals, few actually receive treatment for the issues that brought them to Juvenile. /// 15-year-old Gabriel, restrained while he detoxes in a cell at Webb County Juvenile Detention. How I got here? I dont remember, sir. Gabriel, 15, took 10 rRohypnol pills (a potent tranquilizer) and boarded the bus to school. Stoked by the drugs, an argument with another kid turned ugly. A teacher who intervened says Gabriel threatened him. When he arrived in Juvenile--his fifth time there--officers found more pills in his pocket. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility--a felony. And Gabriel isnt the only child brought to Juvenile in a narcohaze. Far from it, according to Jesse Hernandez, head of a local drug counseling program: Virtually everyone in the juvenile detention system is abusing drugs or is dependent. At one point, Doctors Hospital had opened up the mental health unit and we had an adolescent detox here. In 2002 we had to give it up because its very cost-prohibitive to run a program like that. Unfortunately, a lot of kids are now having to be detoxed in the detention center. . . . You never want to get in a situation where youre having to restrain people who are under the influence. Its dangerous.

Exhibit puts juvenile prisoners on display

By Arts & Culture Editor
April 27, 2015
Electric current ups electricity

Electric current ups creativity

By Sports & Health Editor
April 27, 2015
Information from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropys survey

Chicagoans more charitable than national average

By Sarah Martinson
April 20, 2015
Buyout Criteria

Mass buyout brings workforce reductions

By Campus Editor
April 6, 2015
Budget transparency goes digital

Budget transparency goes digital

By Campus Reporter
March 30, 2015
Jessica Droste Yagan

Notable Native: Jessica Droste Yagan

By Sarah Martinson
March 16, 2015
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATISTICS

City expands pilot domestic violence prevention program

By Sarah Martinson
March 16, 2015
Workers dye the Chicago River green to kick off the citys St. Patricks day celebration on March 16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The dying of the river has been a tradition in the city for 43 years. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

St. Patrick’s Day rooted in immigrant tradition

By Metro Editor Bianca Martinez
March 16, 2015

Ald. Bob Fioretti Concedes: ‘We Did Do Change’

February 25, 2015
Sad music plucks spectrum of emotional notes

Sad music plucks spectrum of emotional notes

By Sports & Health Editor
February 16, 2015
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