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It’s Been 30 Years Since Biden Passed His Most Notorious Law With Bill Clinton. It’s Still Totally...
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCalifornia provides a striking lesson on how this plays out. In 2009, a 20-year-long legal battle...
Wisconsin prisons need federal oversight. Arrest of ex-warden shows why. | Opinion
Gannett via AOL· 13 hours agoprison admissions. Start with the school board. MPS failures show a need for an overhaul. Federal courts have issued such orders before. Federal courts, for example, ordered ...
Are Democrats trying to ‘pull one over’ on California voters? It sure looks that way | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act targets Proposition 47, the 2014...
The Safer Kentucky Act makes jails and prisons more dangerous under 'tough-on-crime' guise
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIf horses were treated this way, there would be public outrage. Kentucky has only one private prison...
'Theft is an act of desperation': Pushback remains as Legislature rushes retail theft bills to...
LA Times via AOL· 13 hours ago"From my perspective, we are seeing symptoms of a social problem." In 2014, California voters passed...
If California opts for smaller changes to prisons, rehabilitation must remain a priority
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPete Wilson enacted tough-on-crime laws that essentially converted California prisons to human warehouses. The prison population peaked in 2006, causing ...
Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails
Washington Post· 4 days agoAmid a historic heat wave in the Philippines, few places have been harder to bear than the country’s...
One Year On, Honduras Prison Massacre Survivors Still Reeling
International Business Times· 2 days agoSamantha still does not know how she survived the slaughter of 46 fellow inmates in a brutal gang...
Honduras rolls out widespread gang crackdown
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 days agoTEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -Honduran authorities announced a slate of measures on Friday intended to cut down on organized crime, including the construction...
California's Democratic leaders clash with businesses over curbing retail theft. Here's what to know
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 days agoWith retail theft increasing, California Democratic leadership is clashing with a coalition of law...