PC: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T055-C032-S014-5-ways-to-help-control-your-taxes-in-retirement.html By: Terri Morris The 2019 tax filing season had a slow start as the IRS and many other federal government agencies were forced to halt operations due to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.[1] The IRS closure left Americans wondering how and when they would be able to file their income tax Read more about Americans Start to Feel the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act[…]

By: Gianna Fienberg In April 2018, Virginia took the important step of ensuring the incarcerated had access to menstrual products at no cost through the enactment of House Bill 83.[1] The bill directed the State Board of Corrections and the Director of the Department of Corrections to adopt and implement a standard or policy “to Read more about Periods & Prisons: Virginia’s Recent Struggle to Improve Menstrual Equity in State Facilities[…]

By: Randell Scism When a child is a victim of a crime, not only must they deal with the emotional consequences of that experience, but they may have to deal with the potentially traumatizing effects of the legal involvement.[1] Child abusers are criminally sanctioned, but that requires the child victim to endure the long and Read more about (Hu)man’s Best Friend: How Therapy Dogs Can Help Child Victims Testify in Court[…]

PC: https://fox6now.com/2019/01/11/what-we-know-about-the-suspect-in-the-kidnapping-of-jayme-closs/ By: Jackie Cipolla The Badger State has had its share of high profile murders in the past two decades. The Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer, sparked a national debate over Steven Avery’s alleged murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.[1] Avery’s attorneys put forward the defense of a corrupt sheriff’s department that planted Read more about “Making *Another* Murderer”: Possible Defenses for Jake Patterson for the Murder of Jayme Closs’s Family[…]