>Yes but it’s spelled Thisersherstertonshireing-On-Thames-Brooke

Ftfy

It's pronounced "Thiston"

Yeah I thought this was in /r/NotTheOnion for a second.

This guy Commands and Conquers

>After the announcement of the jail complex’s closure by 2027, city officials have been devising a comprehensive plan to transform Rikers Island into a citywide green energy hub.

No longer a "Jail", Riker's Island will simply funnel inmates in to one of several reactors where they will be turned in to clean energy in lieu of imprisonment.

Yeah I mean that's cool and all... But dangerously close to "bootstraps" territory. Not motivational.

So interestingly my father was a clinical social worker with a masters in psychology and this is what he did for many years back in the early 2000s.

He went from inner city PES (psychiatric emergency services) to rural psychiatric emergency response. PES is like ER for psych and PER is actually going to the scene.

He was deputized by the county he worked in so technically he was law enforcement. However he didn't carry a gun. Just a holster of thorazine. Dead serious.

Now this was rural. I mean... Amish Country.

So he saw everything from a farmer with PTSD from Iraq trying to blow his brains out in front of his kids to an Amish teenager displaying signs of schizophrenia and driving a car off a bridge.

Pretty interesting and from what I gathered it was effective. He liked the work. People liked him. Wish it was more common.