Last week, police shut down two homeless encampments in Providence. We hear about a U.S. Supreme Court case that could change how cities across the country work with homeless communities. Also, a few professors who visited the pro-Palestine encampment at Brown University received letters threatening faculty discipline. Some are calling for institutional reform to protect academic freedom. And we hear from Marty Sinnott, CEO of a child advocacy nonprofit, who for years has been sounding the alarm on Rhode Island’s overloaded child welfare system. Plus, we take you on a journey through some of the rare books, art and history at the Providence Athenaeum. That and more on this week’s show.
Marty Sinnott
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Rhode Island has ‘more kids in psychiatric care that should be someplace else’
For years, Marty Sinnott warned Rhode Island lawmakers of trouble mounting in the state’s child welfare system. But the CEO of the Middletown-based nonprofit Child and Family Services of Newport County says nobody listened. Now, officials from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families are scrambling to remove kids from the troubled St. Mary’s […]
