MARIA LUISA TUCKER
Podcast Producer & Journalist
RECENT ARTICLES
BRIGHT Magazine
September 14, 2018
Suicide is the second leading killer of teens in the U.S. New York's simple but radical solution hopes to change that.
Tonic/VICE
July 10, 2018
He was one of the large number of people in this country whose overdose was a suicide.
WHAT A SCHOOL
LOCKDOWN
SHOULD LOOK LIKE
Parents (print only)
February 2018
Amid frightening news of mass shootings, it's reassuring to know that 70% of public schools practice lockdown drills. Find out if your child's school follows these best practices.
CRIME & COURTS
The Village Voice
November 27, 2007
For years, sisters Carleen Goodridge and Brigitte Harris battled over whether or not to confront their dad about his sexual abuse of them. It took a shocking act of violence – Brigitte’s grisly murder of their father – to finally bring the sisters together.
The Village Voice
July 16, 2008
When New York began sending rapists straight from prison to locked-down psychiatric hospitals–even after they’d finished serving their sentences–a dozen men on Ward’s Island were left in legal limbo.
The Village Voice
May 15, 2007
A Harlem funeral home has been sued for losing bodies and filching corpses from nearby hospitals. Now it must answer charges that a dead man’s body was chewed up by rats.
MENTAL HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGY
The Village Voice
Septmber 11, 2007
Colleen Kelley’s brain has been scanned, doused in experimental drugs, magnetized, electrified, and cut open. She has submitted to it all willingly, in hopes that the experimental treatments will finally relieve her severe depression.
AlterNet.org
October 28, 2008
A map illustrating regional personality differences across America is surprisingly similar to the red/blue state map of the nation.
The Village Voice
May 15, 2007
Elizabeth Rivera thought her autistic and often violent son might accidentally kill her one day. After a series of placements at different special ed schools and psychiatric hospitals, she found the one thing that could keep his behavior in check: an electric shock.