Crowded Prisons, Unions, and California Three Strikes: Why We Can't Just Build …
Crowded Prisons, Unions, and California Three Strikes: Why We Can't Just Build …
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More than 3,500 Third Strikers were sentenced for a non-violent, non-serious crime, and of these, more than 1,300 were sentenced for drug-related offenses (PDF). CCPOA, which has donated money to stopping similar reforms in the past, has stayed …
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Election 2012: Civil Liberties Win Big on the Ballot
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From Maine to Minnesota, California to Florida, and Massachusetts to New Mexico, Americans chose freedom. Voters spoke loud and clear about … Life sentence penalties would remain when an individual's third strike conviction is for certain non-serious …
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Juvenile in Justice
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Though Ross admitted that some of the youth he spoke with committed serious felonies worthy of their sentences, the vast majority suffer from the criminalization of normal adolescent shenanigans, he said, a product of political posturing and the …
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Former Macclenny physician arrested on 822 fraud counts
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The other counts are third-degree felonies, which are punishable by up to five years in prison. The investigation began last year when authorities identified Dr. Scarborough as “a significant prescriber of controlled substances in Northeast Florida …
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