After multiple lawsuits from a prisoner who claimed she felt like a ‘sex slave’ in male prisons, the Illinois Department of Corrections is mandating staff training in “transgender issues.” Is it a special privilege or necessity? There are only 28 transgender prisoners in the Illinois correctional system, but one of them – a trans-woman named […]
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How to Break a Bad Habit and Retrain Your Brain
The words said by Aristotle more than 2000 years ago still ring true: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” The world has changed much since those days, but the functions of human systems are still the same. And when it comes to habits, they rule supreme, […]