probation
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On the sacred.
Money isn’t sacred. A person’s reputation is.
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On attentiveness and names.
Some kids are exceptionally attentive to their environment … but we tell them they have an attention deficit.
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On loneliness.
It’s well known that loneliness wrecks brains … so why are we imposing it on the people we expect better behavior from?
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On Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep.’
We’re asking addicts to learn whole new ways of living … and expect them to do it while utterly sleep deprived in jail.
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On race and our criminal justice system.
In our nation’s criminal justice system, we ignore most of who people are… and focus only on the parts of them we fear.
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