Yates Named UNITE Treatment Director
Yates named UNITE treatment director
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Currently UNITE contracts with 20 treatment facilities in Kentucky and other states. UNITE helped create two residential facilities in the Fifth District – the Chad's Hope Teen Challenge Center in Clay County and the WestCare Hal Rogers Appalachian …
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In the media: Faculty inform the press
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The first article featured Joe B. Jones, director of the Center for Archaeological Research, discussing the unearthing of artifacts during development projects while the second drew on the expertise of Bryan Watts, director of the Center for …
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College Grad (Olivia Moody) Shot Bully, Gets 30-year Prison Sentence 6 Days After Graduation – An honor student who worked her way out of Chicago’s crime-ridden Roseland neighborhood to become the first in her immediate family to graduate from college, Moody’s life had once been on a different course. But in May, less than a week after she received a degree in criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a jury convicted her of killing a 21-year-old mother of two after a senseless altercation over a young man. Moody claimed that she had been bullied by a group of women from the neighborhood and that the shooting was self-defense. The jury decided it was second-degree murder. Now the young woman born to a prostitute and crack addict who abandoned her at the hospital after birth, a young woman who believed that education would be her ticket “out of the ghetto,” is serving a 30-year sentence in an Arkansas prison. “My world has been turned around,” Moody said, tears trickling down her face as she sat for an interview at the McPherson Unit, a women’s correctional facility about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock. “I tried to live my life as a model that you can be successful regardless of where you came from,” she said, having dreamed of becoming a lawyer and even a Supreme Court justice. “It’s hard to tell my little brother and sister they can do better when I’m sitting in prison. I feel like I’m a failure to them.” When she was 8, Moody was featured in a Time magazine article that chronicled her mother’s efforts to give up her life on the streets …
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