First Slice 4-15-16: State lawmaker charged with DUI, up for re-election in May
Plus, video of Jasper County student’s paddling rekindles debate over corporal punishment in schools.
The mother of a five-year-old student in Jasper County shared a http://www.11alive.com/news/education/viral-video-reignites-corporal-punishment-school-debate/133105594” rel=”external”>video of school administrators paddling her son in a manner she believes is abusive. Georgia law allows individual schools to determine whether to practice corporal punishment with parental consent. However, the mother who captured the footage says that she did not give the principal permission to use physical discipline.
Ashley Diamond, a transgender woman, has given her first on-camera interview about the mistreatment she endured in the Georgia prison system. Diamond spoke with 11Alive about being targeted by other inmates and staff, as well as being denied important hormone therapy treatments while serving her sentence.
This is why dead bodies wind up in Atlanta’s abandoned homes.
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