By Benedict Carey December 19, 2011 SMYRNA, Del. — The taste of cocaine and the slow-motion sensation of breaking the law were all too familiar, but the thrill was long gone. Antonio Lambert was not a young hoodlum anymore but a family man with a career, and here he was last fall, high as ...
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Our view: Technically, Maryland doesn't hold prisoners in solitary confinement, but in practice the techniques it uses to control unruly inmates amount to virtually the same thing July 8, 2012 Officially, the state of Maryland does not hold any of the 22,000 inmates in its prison system in what...
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Positive and Negative ViewpointsMany citizens and legislators form an opinion on weight lifting in prisons-based on an incident or one issue. We encourage them to look at the "whole picture" before forming an opinion. This list of issues has been prepared to make everyone more aware of ...
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By Mosi Secret October 1, 2012 The handwritten letters arrived by the dozens, from men who described in flawed but poignant language what it was like to lose their minds. “I feel like I am developing some kind of skitsophrinia behaviors,” one man wrote. “I hear voices echoing as I try to fall a...
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SCDC’s Self Paced In–Class Education (SPICE) Program is an inmate education and employment initiative. This initiative is a faith–based community partnership between SCDC, SCDPPPS and area Technical Colleges. The SPICE program provides meaningful educational opportunities (vocational training, li...
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October 02, 2012It’s a push for companies not to discriminate against job seekers with a criminal background. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants businesses to look past your rap sheet and focus on your job skills.In April 2012 the EEOC updated its policy on criminal background chec...
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Sep. 30, 2012 CareerBuilderMore than 92 million individuals have a criminal history on file in state criminal history repositories, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. Having a criminal past can potentially haunt someone's future, especially when it comes ...
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09/19/2012A new survey has found that hiring managers and recruiters believe it is easier to place a candidate who has a job -- but who also has a criminal record -- than a person who has been unemployed for more than two years.Bullhorn, the recruiting software company, conducted an anonymous sur...
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Oct 2, 2012Contrary to perception that having a criminal record can impede chances of getting a job, more than half (51 percent) of the companies in the US have hired such people, a new survey has said.Also, hiring managers at nearly two-third of the US companies believe that such persons should ...