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• In Need of Cash, State Requiring Drivers to Buy New $25 Plates

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The new, highly reflective plates will be made at a mens prison upstate.
  12 hours ago

• Editorial: Cruel, Pointless Games

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The case of the American hikers is only the latest example of the Iranian government misusing and undermining its judiciary for political ends.
  12 hours ago

• Texas prisons and those “crazy” H1N1 vaccines

  
  GlobalComment — Authority: 569
  The escalating death rate, coupled with the shortage of the vaccine, has fuelled a public panic surrounding the H1N1 virus. The limited supply of vaccines has caused the U.S. government to focus on insuring those who are considered high-risk are the first to be vaccinated. The impoverished must depend upon free ...
  20 hours ago

• Minimum 25 year term for knife killers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Justice secretary announces 10-year increase in minimum term after review following fatal stabbing of Ben Kinsella The minimum prison sentence for knife killers will be increased from 15 to 25 years, the justice secretary, Jack Straw, said today. Straws statement followed a review ordered amid public anger at the ...
  1 day ago

• Georgia creates new black market for cigarettes

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 587
  State prisons to ban cigarettes.
  1 day ago

• Georges , Gaston Flosse en prison

  
  THE BLORG! Corp — Authority: 138
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• Opinion: Moving Iowa forward, sell state prisons to private-sector

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 488
  By Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief The work of government taking and spending your money is endless, and state leaders continue to nibble around the edges. Governor Culver has taken a one-size fits all approach to correcting the state budget instead of looking for ways to make Iowa a better run ...
  1 day ago

• Conservative group calls for privatization of Iowa prisons

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 651
  Iowa should privatize its prison system in order to alleviate budget problems, a conservative watchdog group said Monday. Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief , said the privatization of Iowa’s prisons would result in many positive benefits, from making communities safer to minimizing inefficiencies. ...
  2 days ago

• Justice for Money!

  
  Cuppacafe — Authority: 138
  Last week, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the State of Arizona’s plan to privitize the State’s prison system by selling off nine of it’s 10 prisons, and then leasing them back from the new owners. Yep, while that may sound preposterous to, well rational people, apparent the very notion of Arizona selling ...
  2 days ago

• Hold Fast to Hope for Prisons Week 15-21 November 2009

  
  octomusings — Authority: 419
  Churches across Great Britain are being encouraged to hold special services and events to mark Prisons Week from 15-21 November. The theme for Prisons Week this year is Hold Fast to Hope, encouraging Christians to focus on real stories of hope and redemption from around the world. Revd David Gamble, President of ...
  2 days ago

• Hold fast to hope for Prisons Week

  
  connexions — Authority: 518
  Churches across Great Britain are being encouraged to hold special services and events to mark Prisons Week from 15-21 November. The theme for Prisons Week this year is Hold Fast to Hope, encouraging Christians to focus on real stories of hope and redemption from around the world.Revd David Gamble, President of the ...
  2 days ago

• Twenty Years Ago Today

  
  Isak — Authority: 432
  ... The first hole was broken in the Berlin Wall, cutting through a city and a continent that had been too long divided into "East" and "West." The Wall was one of the twentieth centurys most destructive metaphors. Today, the site of the Brandenburg Gate is a beautiful  pedestrianplaza marked by large openings ...
  2 days ago

• Our Lost Children

  
  Diane Dimond — Authority: 106
  In the United States there are nearly 2300 boys and girls convicted of crimes and serving “life without” as they call it. Amnesty International reports in the rest of the world combined there are just 12 children serving such sentences. Im not okay with that as a majority of these kids were allowed to be ...
  2 days ago

• Why we should not execute Gary Glitter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Channel 4 screens a drama about the hanging of Paul Gadd tonight, but we learn more from trying to understand criminals than from killing them Channel 4 stages a televisual hanging tonight in The Execution of Gary Glitter. Here, a lawyer who has represented paedophiles explains why it is better to seek ...
  2 days ago

• Three Old Favourites In The Weekend Press

  
  Burning our money — Authority: 592
  1. 2012 Olympics - costs hit £12bn According to the Telegraph , the real cost of the 2012 Games is actually £2.7bn more than the official £9.3bn budget. From "obscure documents" and FOI requests, the Telegraph has uncovered the following hidden costs: £1.15 billion spent by Boris Johnsons ...
  3 days ago

• Comply with Pelois Healthcare Plan or Go to Jail

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 573
  H/T Boot Berry - by Publius, BigGovernment.com: Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health ...
  3 days ago

• Lifting Immunity

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 432
  "An Austin federal jury in Thursday found that two top state parole officials violated the constitutional rights of an ex-convict who was denied a required hearing for 576 days. Jurors also held the Board of Pardons and Paroles [BPP] Chairman Rissie Owens liable for $21,250 in damages and awarded Curtis Ray Graham ...
  3 days ago

• Stephen Colbert on prison privatization

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 573
  In case yall missed it last week, heres Stephen Colberts recent take on prison privatization: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - The Green Mile www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating Just to have said ...
  3 days ago

• High court to look at life in prison for juveniles (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 151
  WASHINGTON – Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he threw his ...
  3 days ago

• FL - Supreme Court to Examine Life in Prison for Juveniles

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 447
  View the article here 11/07/2009 The Supreme Court is being asked to say that locking up juveniles and throwing away the key is cruel and unusual -- and thus, unconstitutional . _____ was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. ...
  3 days ago

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