2-20-13: Juvenile Facilities, Civil Defense, Casserole making




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: Conditions in Maryland's juvenile facilities are improving, says a new report from the state Attorney General's office - better care for girls, shorter waits for treatment, and fewer violent incidents. Are the improvements sustainable? We ask Nick Moroney, director of the Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit. In the 1950s and early ‘60s, people didn’t worry about terrorism; they worried about a nuclear bomb and the effort against it wasn’t called homeland security, but civil defense. Why was Baltimore the first East Coast city to stop civil defense? Sascha Wolhandler schools Tom Hall on the art of the casserole.