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This is good and important step to making our laws rational. Right now we have a patch work of laws where basically you are a child till 21 unless someone wants you to die in a foreign war or go to prison.
This is an irrational and bad policy that breeds contempt for the law.
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I couldn’t agree more with this article. . The U.S. Justice system is basically a railroad right to jail (a jailroad?) for the poor and middle class and has no business using the word justice anywhere in it. Its the Just Us (meaning rich and mostly white) system and everyone else is meat for […]
A couple of teen girls apparently missed conscience 101. Remorseless Stealing from a Girl Scout no less.
I think if I were a parent this would be high on my nightmares list. Not the kids going to juvenile hall but the fact my daughter simply hasn’t learned right from wrong on so basic a […]
From Missouri of all places.
Missouri, a place where teen offenders are viewed not just as inmates but as works in progress — where troubled kids are rehabilitated in small, homelike settings that stress group therapy and personal development over isolation and punishment.
In other words. Healing and Restoration and Mercy.
America, the prison nation needs […]
Awesome News.
The death penalty is nothing more than state sanctioned ritual murder and even if it was 100% always used justly (which it is not) it would not be appropriate or moral for a civilized people.
Story care of the B.B.C.
I am not going to retract my anti Saudi vitriol here but I will give King Abdullah kudos for doing the right thing.
Still when your country makes pre war Iraq look progressive you have a problem. The Saudi people would be much happier and prosperous if they would get their […]
New Jersey likely to eliminate the death penalty. and Suprmee Court restores sentencing powers of federal fudges in drug cases.
We have a long way to go to restore sanity to out justice system but these are very welcome steps on the path.
In a word
Rape without consequences on your own people .
As for the arbitration mentioned in the article. Don’t make me laugh. I’ll direct you to my previous article on that topic.
Really if the State Department wanted to deal with this they could arrest the persons holding her captive as terrorists under the Patriot Act […]
A.P via Yahoo is reporting that
States are rethinking and, in some cases, retooling juvenile sentencing laws. They’re responding to new research on the adolescent brain, and studies that indicate teens sent to adult court end up worse off than those who are not: They get in trouble more often, they do it faster and […]
Lets put it bluntly, no candidate other than a very leftist or liberal one will reduce imprisonment.
Its meat and drink for the prison lobby, its a great way to sow fear and win the votes of the timid and its a terrific way to not have to deal with minorities and the poor.
Have […]