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Category: Justice
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Published: Friday, 16 August 2013 15:16
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Written by Roger Caldwell
“The U.S. is at a pivotal moment right now where fundamental change to our bloated, racially-biased criminal justice system is possible. But change isn’t inevitable; it will take significant leadership by Attorney General Holder, President Obama, and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress,” says Bill Piper, director of national affairs for Drug Policy Alliance.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there are between 1.6 to 2 million prisoners in jail. It will cost $24,000 to $27,000 a year to house the prisoners, and 70% of them do not have a high school diploma.
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Category: Justice
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Published: Thursday, 15 August 2013 03:40
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Written by Attorney taleph Haynes Davis, Esq.
Posted on August 15, 2013
“I still believe in the power of forgiveness; I believe in the power of redemption,” Jackson said when approached by a reporter after the hearing. “Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in resurrection.” —NBC News, reporting on 8/14/2013.
That is what the former U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. said to media assembled in front of a vehicle that he was about to enter after her was sentenced Wednesday, August 14, 2013 to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items according to NBC News.
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