There, say, they dont belong. And hes no longer boss, but on d. C. Streets, hes still known as mayor for life. Washingtons washingtons washingtons marion barry. I have a philosophy. A setup is for a come back. And good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen, welcome to america tonight, the weekend edition. It is a shocking statistic. One study finds u. S. Prisons are home to ten times as many mentally ill people as state psychiatric hospitals. As aasigh legals were shut down and budgets made Community Support scarce, prisons have become the repositories for the mentally ill in america. Americ america tonights michael okwu finds a surprising campaigner for change. Its shocking enough to witness firsthand. A collection of men confined to the prison of their own minds. Broken, vulnerable and in unrelenting pain. More shocking perhaps to know that the nations largest caretaker of the mentally ill is right here. The twin towers correctional facility, los angeles countys jail. L. A. Di
Shells. Whats been targeted and why its so harm to stay out of harms way. The nations Mental Health system picked up. Keeping them in jail for a year will cost 65,000. The most intensive treatment is going to cost 25,000. Behind the walls of the l. A. County jail where even the prosecutor who put them there said the mentally ill just dont belong. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. Israel and palestinians in the gaza strip face more fear, sad and bloody clashes, the death toll in gaza 800 with 5200 injured. The violence is spreading. A huge protest on the west bank, thousands of palestinian protesting. In gaza, a strike against a u. N. School, 15 palestinians died. The u. N. Expressed outrage but the source of the she will remains in dispute. Israel said it was a hamas rocket. They should have been safe. Everyone here had left their homes to the supposed safety of a makeshift u. N. Shelter. All our children are in the school and us, too, go and see, they she would us wit
Government accountability office, about 17 of employees with the Veterans Affairs department say theyve experienced Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va officials appeared before a subcommittee to explain what is being done to address the issue. The hearing is about an hour and a half. Todays hearing is titled progress made, anding Sexual Harassment at the department of Veterans Affairs. We will hear from two witnesses. Diversity and inclusion and miss johnsonabercrombie, director of operations as well as mr. Costa, joining us virtually. Sexual harassment is a major problem within the department which affects the wellbeing of va employees. An estimated 17 of va employees experience one form of Sexual Harassment this exceeds the government average of 11 . It might be the highest rate of Sexual Harassment im sure everyone in this room agrees that this is unacceptable. The severity and pervasiveness of Sexual Harassment within va is not new. I wish i could say the department has done al
The reasons they do such terrible things. Youll be shown a series of scenarios. You should immediately respond to the question by pressing the yes or no button. You take normal people. And if you give them a moral dilemma like would you kill one person to save five lives, thats a difficult decision for many of us. But when we do the same thing with psychopaths, their amygdala is functioning much less, then how moral is it of us to punish psychopaths as harshly as we, do assuming that they never asked to be born with an amygdala that was broken . Two people often can have a lesion or some brain ab normality in exactly the same place, and it manifests self in completely different ways. Raine agrees that two people can have the same defect and one might resort to violent crime, the other to violent sports. But he says there are now more reliable bio markers that should not be ignored. But you look at the murderer here, and you can see a distinct lack of activity in that prefrontal cortex.
Decisionmaking, in empathy, in conscience, feeling remorse, feeling guilt, which is one of the reasons they do such terrible things. Youll be shown a series of scenarios. You should immediately respond to the question by pressing the yes or no button. You take normal people. And if you give them a moral dilemma like would you kill one person to save five lives, thats a difficult decision for many of us. But when we do the same thing with psychopaths, their amygdala is functioning much less, then how moral is it of us to punish psychopaths as harshly as we, do assuming that they never asked to be born with an amygdala that was broken . Two people often can have a lesion or some brain ab normality in exactly the same place, and it manifests itself in completely different ways. Raine agrees that two people can have the same defect and one might resort to violent crime, the other to violent sports. But he says there are now more reliable bio markers that should not be ignored. But you look