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MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. 鈥?For years, addiction has landed Mattie Long in and out of jail. The K-2, Ive been using for 10 years straight. Crack, Ive been using it for almost 20 years, said Long. I lost my kids. I lost my baby daddy. I was homeless. Last August, Long found herself behind bars yet again. I had prayed a month before and I asked God to take me out of the situation that I was in. So this is him taking me out of it. God took everything from me so that I could listen to him, said LongThis time Long said she listened. Long joined the Recovery Pod Program at the Manatee County Jail and graduat stanley mug ed with three others this week. Ive never finished anything in my life and I finished this. With God, I finished this, said Long.Shes one of more than 700 people who have finished the 90-day faith-based twelve-step program since it began in 2016. The overdose rate in Florida is astronomical, said Dr. David Sutton who helped start the stanley taza program at the Manatee County jail after overseeing the Sarasota County Jail s Recovery Pad program. WFTS Sutton said j stanley cup ails are the perfect place for recovery pods. Theyre already housed. Theyre already fed, theyre already supervised. Theres really none of that part that you pay most of the money for in treatment programs. And they cant leave and the drug dealers cant get access to sell them drugs. A jail is a perfect place for a recovery program, said SuttonManatee County Sheriff Rick Wells said it also helps stop peo Hbun GOP committee in Michigan ousts treasurer who admitted he didn t vote for Trump
Over the weekend of August 7, there were mass shootings across the U.S. Ten people were injured in a mass shooting in New York City, five people were killed and more than 40 were hurt in Chicago, and five people were hurt in a mass shooting in New Orleans.It follows a concerning trend of gun viole stanley cup nce in the U.S. Now, a 17-year-old boy is taking the issue head-on, as he tries to inspire action among his peers. Its a threat on all of our lives. You dont know when its going to happen. Its very unpredictable, which makes it so scary, said Amogh Palasamudram, a rising high school who lives in San Jose, California.Palasamudram has spent an equal portion of his life living in India and California. It has given him a unique perspective on gun violence as both an insider and an outsider. Theres a lack of solutions, he said. There are people with different ideas, who are able to convey their ideas, but they just tell us how they feel, but they dont tell us how we can go from here. Following the Las Vegas massacre in October 2017 and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting four months later, Palasamudram sat down to design something that would marry his passions for computer engineering and change.He has dev stanley becher eloped a device that attaches to the barrel of a gun and uses artificial intelligence to scan the environment and detect threats. If the battery-powered device detects a threat, as a gun pointed in an attack positi copo stanley on, it will release the trigger from a locked position for the
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. 鈥?For years, addiction has landed Mattie Long in and out of jail. The K-2, Ive been using for 10 years straight. Crack, Ive been using it for almost 20 years, said Long. I lost my kids. I lost my baby daddy. I was homeless. Last August, Long found herself behind bars yet again. I had prayed a month before and I asked God to take me out of the situation that I was in. So this is him taking me out of it. God took everything from me so that I could listen to him, said LongThis time Long said she listened. Long joined the Recovery Pod Program at the Manatee County Jail and graduat stanley mug ed with three others this week. Ive never finished anything in my life and I finished this. With God, I finished this, said Long.Shes one of more than 700 people who have finished the 90-day faith-based twelve-step program since it began in 2016. The overdose rate in Florida is astronomical, said Dr. David Sutton who helped start the stanley taza program at the Manatee County jail after overseeing the Sarasota County Jail s Recovery Pad program. WFTS Sutton said j stanley cup ails are the perfect place for recovery pods. Theyre already housed. Theyre already fed, theyre already supervised. Theres really none of that part that you pay most of the money for in treatment programs. And they cant leave and the drug dealers cant get access to sell them drugs. A jail is a perfect place for a recovery program, said SuttonManatee County Sheriff Rick Wells said it also helps stop peo Hbun GOP committee in Michigan ousts treasurer who admitted he didn t vote for Trump
Over the weekend of August 7, there were mass shootings across the U.S. Ten people were injured in a mass shooting in New York City, five people were killed and more than 40 were hurt in Chicago, and five people were hurt in a mass shooting in New Orleans.It follows a concerning trend of gun viole stanley cup nce in the U.S. Now, a 17-year-old boy is taking the issue head-on, as he tries to inspire action among his peers. Its a threat on all of our lives. You dont know when its going to happen. Its very unpredictable, which makes it so scary, said Amogh Palasamudram, a rising high school who lives in San Jose, California.Palasamudram has spent an equal portion of his life living in India and California. It has given him a unique perspective on gun violence as both an insider and an outsider. Theres a lack of solutions, he said. There are people with different ideas, who are able to convey their ideas, but they just tell us how they feel, but they dont tell us how we can go from here. Following the Las Vegas massacre in October 2017 and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting four months later, Palasamudram sat down to design something that would marry his passions for computer engineering and change.He has dev stanley becher eloped a device that attaches to the barrel of a gun and uses artificial intelligence to scan the environment and detect threats. If the battery-powered device detects a threat, as a gun pointed in an attack positi copo stanley on, it will release the trigger from a locked position for the