The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse
For decades, dozens of men with intellectual disabilities lived in an old schoolhouse and did gruesome work in a turkey plant for subminimum wage. No one noticed.
For decades, dozens of men with intellectual disabilities lived in an old schoolhouse and did gruesome work in a turkey plant for subminimum wage. No one noticed.
Dan Barry New York Times Mar 2014 Permalink
A Southern defense attorney's complicated family Christmas, told through the point of view of his child.
"Every Christmas Daddy throws a 'Taking the Christ Out of Christmas' party and invites everybody. Everybody loves my Daddy except for a small percentage that want to take their revenge, so it's lots of people, old clients, other criminal defense attorneys, Rey Mason from the feed store, everybody. No Jesus cause it makes Daddy angry and both his hands already broke."
Lucy Alibar Oxford American Dec 2013 15min Permalink
Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
Alan Prendergast Westword Sep 2012 30min Permalink
A thirteen-year-old adoptee born in Russia with fetal alcohol syndrome, his golden sheperd Chancer, and the trainer who taught Chancer to bond emotionally with disabled children.
Melissa Fay Greene New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 25min Permalink