December 31, 2012The Sandy Hook Elementary shootings have affected us all in different ways. As a mother of 1- and 3-year-old boys and a virtual master’s of social work student through the University of Southern California, I am distraught by these tragic losses and empathetic with the families, ...
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RECORD SEARCHLIGHT FILE PHOTO - Aaron Betancourt, 22, right, shown with Randy Cates, 39, fill out job applications earlier this year at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding. Both men were among the first prison inmates to return to Shasta County under the state's public safety realignment planBy Jim ...
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Grandmother fought for years to lower expenseTRACY A. WOODWARD/WASHINGTON POST - Martha Wright-Reed, 86, called her grandson, Ulandis Forte, whose childhood photo is at left, when he was in prison.By Justin Moyer - WASH POST - December 16, 2012WASHINGTON - Almost a decade ago, a petition by t...
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In the age of free phone calls and Skype, one group of people is still paying exorbitant rates for talk time: prisoners. The bill for a typical 15 minute state-to-state call tops $16 in some areas. By David Goldman@CNNMoneyTech - Decemb...
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EDITORIAL - December 28, 2012To cut state corrections costs, which have quadrupled over the last decade to about $52 billion annually, many states are remaking “hair-trigger” parole systems that send large numbers of people back to jail, not for new crimes but for technical violations like fail...
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Alexa Garza, 33, who is serving 20 years for murder at the Mountain View state women’s prison, works to translate textbooks into Braille for the blind. Photo: Johnny Hanson, Houston Chronicle / © 2012 Houston Chronicle By Alan Turner - Tuesday, December 25, 2012 ...
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Danny Givens is celebrating his fifth holiday season back home with his mother, Bernita Givens-Osborn, and other family members after spending 12 years in prison for aggravated assault. The Golden Valley man, now a minister, clearly recalls his first Christmas behind bars. "It was a heavy mo...
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April 20, 2012, by JailstoJobs, under Stumbling Blocks.If Assembly Bill 1831 passes the California State Assembly, it will become the latest victory in a nationwide effort to “ban the box.” The “box” refers to the place on job applications which asks applicants to state their criminal history in...
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by Jessica Pupovac - The Crime Report, June 3rd, 2010More prisoners are doing federal time than ever, but Congress isn’t allocating enough funds to pay for them. Prison officials and reformers say a rethink of the system is long overdue. While cash-strapped states are responding to the nati...