Thomas Shaw is a lanky fifty-nine-year-old man with dark eyes and a shock of gray hair that gives him a bit of a mad scientist air. Growing up, he lived in Mexico and Arizona, where his father worked as a chemist (among other things, the elder Shaw invented the first nitrogen test...
Last November, a federal judge ruled that the State of Tennessee had violated the constitutional rights of mentally retarded residents of a state institution known as the Arlington Developmental Center. Among other things, the judge ruled that it was “virtually conceded by the state of Tennessee t...
(1) there was a larger representation of African Americans in our study sample (42% from the Washington metropolitan area vs. 12.4% of the total U.S. population in 2020) [6]. (2) African Americans had the highest proportion of Medicaid recipients in the study. Further research is needed...