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... Hard Time in the Heartland, by Ian Urbina, Middle East Report, September 30, 2003 (National) Textile and manufacturing jobs are ... victims and survivors frustrated. Prosecutors order expensive unnecessary tests from over burdened crime labs. Jurors expect ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 4:15pm - 0 attachments

... post-prison supervision. A 1998 Sentencing Project report estimated that more than 151,500 Washingtonians are denied the right to ... of all, the voting law discriminates against the poor. In order to get back the right to vote, Washington requires that people with past ...

story - Kathleen - Sep 28 2006 - 12:59am - 0 attachments

... Alec Ewald of the University of Massachusetts, in a report titled Punishing at the Polls: The Case Against Disenfranchising ... of the country. So why do these laws exist? In order to understand the real reason for felony disenfranchisement, one needs to ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 1:23pm - 0 attachments

... by Scot Nakagawa According to a 2003 Human Rights Watch report, approximately two to four hundred thousand people with mental illnesses ... those who society has identified as threats to the social order, prison is the solution. And, the more we turn to prisons, the more ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 3:27pm - 0 attachments

... been “re-victimized” by the process. A Data Center report authored by Grace Chang in 2000 describes an incident in which the ... to be dubious and justice is unlikely to be served. In order for the restorative justice system to work, all participants must be ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 3:33pm - 0 attachments

... prevention than on locking up specific groups of people in order to make the public feel safe, whether or not they actually are safe. ... Many of our members are survivors of crimes they did not report and many people who are incarcerated are crime survivors themselves. ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 13 2005 - 11:23pm - 0 attachments

... tax. Both proposals were promoted as being essential in order to compete with it’s low tax, low wage neighbor – Texas. Here ... Justice, which had 199 bills introduced." The report of the Criminal Justice Task Force states: “The Criminal Justice ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 14 2005 - 9:04pm - 0 attachments

... is in lockdown. Because of a 2003 federal court order, Wyoming prison administrators are required to thoroughly investigate assaults on incarcerated people and report the findings to an outside monitor from Washington state. This order was ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 10:57pm - 0 attachments

... in their case. Since the majority of people do not report their victimization, this system does not come close to serving all ... pay a certain amount of a juvenile’s restitution order, people who are found guilty by reason of insanity still be ordered to ...

story - Caylor - Sep 28 2006 - 12:39am - 0 attachments

... prisons to incarcerate more and more people. An October report by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy explains that if a ... very similar group of people who did not have treatment in order to see what effect treatment had on the first group. The programs ...

story - Kathleen - Mar 14 2007 - 11:56pm - 0 attachments