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14 Feb, 2011

The Omitted Parts: The Smart on Crime Report

2019-03-18T18:48:06-05:00February 14th, 2011|Tags: , , , |

Last week a number of distinguished organizations released a new report meant to urge Congress and the President into making substantive changes to the way this country deals with crime. In my last post, I pointed out the strengths of the report. In this post, I want to discuss a few items that [...]

14 Jan, 2011

A Rat Bites an Inmate’s Penis and other Prisoner News for the Week

2019-03-18T18:48:07-05:00January 14th, 2011|Tags: , , , , |

This is the first of many posts covering a legal issue that is very important to me, to 2 million of its members, and to many more millions of the members’ families: prisoner news. A former inmate at the Nassau County Correctional Center in Long Island, New York, filed a law suit [...]