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• Illinois 2010 Democratic Primary-Governor: Pat Quinn Says Dan Hynes Unleashes “Willie Horton-Style Ad”, Invokes Barack Obama

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 440
  (Chicago, IL) — January 5, 2010 . The war of words and ads between Democrats Governor Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes has entered the scorched earth phase. Quinn and Hynes today continued to launch rhetorical rockets at each other’s camp over the Illinois Department of Corrections’s bungled prisoner ...
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• TX House Committees to begin work on interim charges

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 536
  A couple of Texas House legislative committees will hold hearings in the next couple of weeks on criminal-justice related topics. The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee will meet Monday, January 11: The Committee will meet to discuss appropriate procedures for presenting scientific evidence during the trial of ...
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• Illinois 2010 Democratic Primary-Governor: Dan Hynes in Rockford to Press Prisoner Early Release Attack on Pat Quinn

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 440
  (Chicago, IL) — January 5, 2010 .  Comptroller and Democratic candidate for Governor Dan Hynes will hold a press conference in the lobby of the Rockford Register Star Building today at 2:15 p.m. to continue blasting away at Governor Pat Quinn ’s prisoner early release program. The program has ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 954
  -- A Sky Watch item in the Jan. 3 Metro section misstated the dates of two star parties at the observatory at Northway Fields Park in Greenbelt. The events listed as being on Jan. 17 and Jan. 31 will be held Jan. 9 and Jan. 23. The item also misstated the starting time of one of the events; both...
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• Federal Court Dismisses Medical Claims against Northern Cheyenne Officials

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 445
  Here is the opinion in Wallace v. N. Cheyenne Corrections Officers (D. Mont.) — Wallace v Northern Cheyenne Corrections Officers An excerpt: Frequently, prisoners bring denial of medical care claims in federal court pursuant to 42 U.S.c. § 1983. But Wallace cannot establish that the tribal entities and ...
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• Three years later, an apology

  
  Regret the Error — Authority: 690
  The Globe and Mail and Jan Wong did not intend to identify the owners of a Thornhill home whose home was described in the Maid for a Month series in 2006, and apologizes for any harm that may have been caused by the publication of the article to Steven, Georgina and Angelo Nitsopoulos. Link This is the offending ...
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• “Holiday paralysis in the proofroom”

  
  Regret the Error — Authority: 690
  Ben Welter’s Yesterday’s News blog at the Star Tribune recently featured a lengthy correction that was published on January 1, 1890: The Tribune has no apologies to offer for an annual number that is, considering the circumstances under which it has been prepared, a most creditable piece of statistical and ...
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• Illinois 2010 Elections: Dan Hynes Calls on Governor Pat Quinn to Give “Full Accounting” of Illinois Prisoner Early Release Program

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 440
  Comptroller Dan Hynes (Chicago, IL) – January 4, 2010. It seems like 2009 never ended. Comptroller and Illinois 2010 Democratic candidate for Governor Dan Hynes yesterday ripped into Governor Pat Quinn over his handling of the Illinois Department of Corrections fouled-up prisoner early release program. ...
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• Making Conversation, Comparison, and Corrections

  
  WriterJax — Authority: 109
  "She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didnt secretly enjoy the same status as real things? ...Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures."- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections It was Christmas night, and my SiL Jenny and I were driving home to my parents house from my ...
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• Prison dogs get pardon, to retire to handlers’ homes

  
  Positive LEO — Authority: 146
  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s first official act of the new year has gone to the dogs — good news for a pair of furry, four-footed law dogs at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility. Richardson pardoned Ace and Echo, K-9 officers used for drug interdiction and fugitive apprehension at the prison west ...
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• Texas 2009 judiciary by the numbers

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 536
  The FY 2009 annual report on the Texas Judiciary (pdf) from the Office of Court Administration came out last month and included a number of notable tidbits related to criminal cases that deserve Grits readers attention. Trials extremely rare In district courts, "Less than 2 percent of all cases (excluding ...
  4 days ago

• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 954
  -- A column by Tom Shales that was part of a Best of the Decade package in the Dec. 27 Arts & Style section incorrectly described the converter box required after television evolved from a once-standard analog system to a digital one. The box converts the newer digital signal to work in the analog...
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• Failed early release plan gives prison reform a bad name

  
  The Platform — Authority: 569
  On the evening of Aug. 25, 2008, Jennifer Hall went out to celebrate her 36th birthday. As she walked toward a Chicago supermarket, Ms. Hall encountered a man who wanted a cigarette. She refused and was beaten into unconsciousness. It took…
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• Community Corrections K9 graduates

  
  Positive LEO — Authority: 146
  Tippecanoe County’s Community Corrections program has a new monitoring tool. The canine officer, “Buddy,” graduated from the Allen County Sheriff’s Department Canine School in Fort Wayne Thursday morning. Community Corrections Executive Director Dave Heath said a canine officer is a “new venture” for the ...
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• Corrections from the last week.

  
  Slate Magazine — Authority: 690
  In the Dec. 30, "Movies" Grady Hendrix misspelled Dwight Yoakams last name. [ more ... ] Dwight Yoakam - Arts - Movies - United States - History
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 954
  -- A Going Out Guide listing in todays Weekend section, which was printed in advance, incorrectly said that the movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was released in the late 1990s. The movie was released in 1992.
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• “Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, / the flying cloud, the frosty light; / the year is dying in the night; / ring out, wild bells, and let him die.”

  
  A Century of Nerve — Authority: 118
  To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee.And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few. (NOTE: I realize that I’ve probably quoted poor Emily Dickinson to death and back on this blog, but I could think of no poem better than good ol’ 1755 to encapsulate the feeling of this ...
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• Governor Pat Quinn Offers Overhaul of Fouled-Up Illinois Prisoner Early Release Program; Dan Hynes Claims “ScapeGoating”

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 440
  Governor Pat Quinn (Chicago, IL) — December 30, 2009 . Governor Pat Quinn yesterday announced an overhaul of the Illinois Department of Corrections ’ prisoner early release program to undo the political damage that the early release of 1,718 inmates—which included violent prisoners and repeat drunk ...
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• DA: Nassau CO Extorted Sex From Inmates

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 504
  NASSAU COUNTY—A Nassau County corrections officer has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual abuse, and forcible touching following allegations by six female inmates that he used his position at the Nassau County jail to extort sexual favors.Mark Barber, 47, of Levittown, was arrested ...
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• 2 Rikers guards in hot water over photo

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 550
  From Eyewitness News : Two Rikers Island correction officers are facing departmental charges after a photo of one of them sleeping on the job circulated among fellow officers. Eyewitness News has learned 30-year-old Nadja Green, the sleeping officer, will face departmental charges of sleeping on post, as well as ...
  6 days ago

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