In this week’s podcast, we look at districts laying claim to their prison inmates, revisions to Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, why there aren’t more women in U.S. public office, and a closer look at changes to psychiatry’s “bible.”
A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.
The Department of Justice has expanded eligibility for compassionate release. But whether that means more inmates are let out early depends on the “compassion” of prison officials.