Joseph Shapiro
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Foster care often fails kids with disabilities. Consider these cases (opens the original)
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The woman who calls 911 says there's a diabetic teen boy in distress, but when police and paramedics arrive at the house in Mesa, Arizona she comes outside to say he's just "pretending that he's dead on the floor" because he wants attention. When those first responders go inside, they find something tragically different. Fifteen-year-old Christian Williams isn't breathing. His lips are blue and his heart has stopped. The small ranch house — lit up from inside in the dark, desert night — is a res
They were promised protection. Instead, these kids with disabilities died in foster care (opens the original)
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The woman who calls 911 says there's a diabetic teen boy in distress, but when police and paramedics arrive at the house in Mesa, Arizona she comes outside to say he's just "pretending that he's dead on the floor" because he wants attention. When those first responders go inside, they find something tragically different. Fifteen-year-old Christian Williams isn't breathing. His lips are blue and his heart has stopped. The small ranch house — lit up from inside in the dark, desert night — is a res
A guard punched him on camera. It was still nearly impossible for him to sue (opens the original)
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This much is undisputed: On Nov. 2, 2023, a guard and a prisoner at a federal penitentiary in California got into it over a straw sunhat that the officer had confiscated. The man — identified in court records by his initials, J.M. — walked out of the office, as Officer Sandra Munagay followed him. When he stopped and turned around, Munagay "cocked back … and punched me in my face," he said in an interview. That is on camera. Munagay admitted to the assault and pleaded guilty this January to fals
Reporter's Notebook: The disability rights protest that changed every bus ride (opens the original)
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In the lead-up to America's 250th birthday, NPR has been exploring the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and assessing whether they have been met in practice. The series is called America in Pursuit. JOSEPH SHAPIRO, BYLINE: This idea was to think about how the Declaration of Independence shaped this country and to talk about ways that people pursue these ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. GONYEA: For NPR's Joseph Shapiro, that meant revisiting a largely forgo
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