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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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. A downloadable version of the report is available at http://www.afsc.org/community/WhoseSafety.pdf ) ... that are most likely to rise up and threaten a public order that protects the privileged. **********  As members of ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 4:44pm - 0 attachments

... in U.S. prisons . As a Human Rights Watch Report on the U.S. made clear: “…serious human rights ... most apparent in the criminal justice system.” The report went on to say that the initial report submitted by the U.S. government ... of these boards can access the prisons at any time in order to talk to staff, prisoners or detainees, hear their concerns and check ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 11:38pm - 0 attachments

... for Higher Education Act Reform (CHEAR) released a report in February about barriers to financial aid created by state governments. This report investigates how each state allocates its financial aid money to college ... Utah all need to reform their financial aid policies in order to provide access to school aid for all students. CHEAR is one of ...

story - Caylor - Apr 26 2006 - 12:46pm - 0 attachments

... on a quarterly basis. Prison systems will be required to report: 1) the name, gender, race, ethnicity, and age of the deceased; 2) the ... for medical and administrative review if suicides occur in order to identify causes and correct weaknesses. Prison suicide ...

story - Kathleen - Jul 4 2005 - 1:42pm - 0 attachments