by Gabriel Alkhdour | Apr 1, 2018 | Law and Justice
The juvenile justice system in the United States is ineffective, harmful and extremely expensive. It does not work, it makes youth worse, and it costs too much. The traditional correctional model of juvenile justice is punitive and adversarial. Youth are removed from...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Mar 11, 2018 | Law and Justice
When the Supreme Court banned capital punishment for crimes that were committed when a defendant was under the age of 18, it ruled that “standards of decency” had evolved to recognize that a juvenile’s “lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility”...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Feb 25, 2018 | Privacy
Facebook just announced sweeping changes to fix significant problems with its newsfeed, the main conduit for news and information for over 2 billion people. However, the problems with Facebook’s newsfeed won’t be fixed with these tweaks. In fact, they...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Feb 18, 2018 | Law and Justice
Last year’s civil rights survey by the Department of Education revealed some disturbing trends: Out-of-school suspensions for black students are common for preschoolers and a pattern of disciplining black students more than white students is consistent from...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Feb 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
As a whole, Americans know to drive on the right side of the road, wear their seat belts and obey traffic signs, but for many states in the great USA, additional laws are needed to clarify the obvious and not-so-obvious rules of the road. We’d like to think that these...
