By: Kristine Alarcon Many state law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders want Smart Justice, which would initiate prison reform. Reforming prison and reentry efforts, according to the RAND Corporation, must provide access to primary health treatment and services. The Treatment Advocacy Center states that "approximately 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates... in prisons have a serious mental illness.” 10% off orders over $20 with coupon code: INCYT

By: Sara Kim UNICEF, a children’s rights and emergency relief organization, recently expressed their fear of an increased rate of child trafficking in Nepal. Although trafficking has occurred in Nepal in the past, following the recent earthquake and aftershook, victim numbers have spiked within the past few months. Due to the natural disaster, which resulted in the death of thousands and the injury of many more, many villages have been destroyed, resulting in a loss of jobs

By: Charmaine Santos This year’s San Francisco Black Film Festival will be playing a 25-minute movie called “Moses,” a story young African males who are sold into sex trafficking. In the movie, the main character, Moses, is a young Nigerian man who plays soccer better than most soccer in Nigeria. A white “sports agent” contacts him and convinces Moses’ father to let Moses travel to America to become a soccer star. Upon his arrival, Moses is taken to a party full of white men

By: Luis Gay Claims have surfaced that Australian officials have been paying human smugglers for years as an approach to deal with migrants. Last month, reports accused Australian police of paying £19,000 to smugglers to turn their boat of 65 migrants back to Indonesia. The passengers on board, which also included women and children, were from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Burma. General Endang Sunjaya, an Indonesian police chief who investigated this incident, said that six cre

By: Kristine Alarcon Coping and dealing with cancer is often a difficult process, but it can be even harder to find clinical trials to help with their symptoms. Martin Naley, an employee at Life Technologies, a genetics company, realized that a large number of patients (around 85%) did not know that trials are an option or that a little more than half of clinical oncology sites cannot find the patients fit for their trials. ADVERTISEMENT: The BraceShop Store, your go-to store

By: Sara Kim Edited by: Sharon E. Chin Compassion, a non-profit organization that links sponsors with children in developing countries, allow sponsors to provide daily necessities for children in need within developing nations, including food and education. Because poverty has a direct correlation with an individual's (especially a child’s) susceptibility to human trafficking, children within the developing world children are highly vulnerable to the crime. However, sponsorsh

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Sharon E. Chin Sara Kruzan, now 37 years old, was a survivor of sex trafficking. She was trafficked in California at the age of 13 years until she was 16. At 16, she shot her pimp, George Gilbert Howard to death. Initially, after the incident, she was sentenced to imprisonment without parole. However, after receiving widespread media attention from various judicial reform groups, Kruzan was paroled on October 31, 2013 after serving 19 years. ADVE

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Sharon E. Chin The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) revealed that United Nations (U.N.) Peacekeepers in Haiti had transactional sex with hundreds of local poor women, where one third of the women were under the age of 18. Stories like this are not uncommon in areas where Peacekeepers have been stationed. Between December 2013 and June 2014, French peacekeeping soldiers forced local children in the Central African Republic (CAR) to commi