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The Massachusetts legislature is the principal roadblock to putting the
The common thread connecting those two items is this: wherever the Massachusetts State Legislature gets its fingers into the criminal-justice system, the results are not pretty. In the case of the three-strikes bill, they are pushing for a feel-good
Updated: 02/01/2012 05:38P
Funds from criminals will be used to buy police gear
By Marla K. Kuhlman Police Lt. Jeff Spence last week told council committee members that funds from the Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund (FLETF) would cover $45000 for the purchase of Survival-brand tactical armor, ballistic plates and attachments
Updated: 02/01/2012 05:27P
Canadian senator suggests supplying criminals with rope in jail
Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a Conservative senator from Quebec, also said the Canadian justice system spends too much money to house criminals. “Each assassin should have the right to a rope in his cell to make a decision about his or her life,” Boisvenu
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:44P
Group Says NY Marijuana Arrest Numbers Look Like They May Be High
State Division of Criminal Justice figures show arrests for the lowest-ranking marijuana misdemeanor rose slightly to 50700. The Drug Policy Alliance obtained the statistics and provided them to The Associated Press. The alliance opposes the national
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:43P
Bogus Pot Busts Continue Apace in New York City
According to new numbers from the New York Division of Criminal Justice, the 2011 total—50700—was the second highest ever. "With the 2011 numbers," AP reports, "the New York Police Department has made more than 227000 bottom-rung marijuana possession
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:35P
Keeping Locked-up Kids and Families Connected
But then again, so many of our criminal justice policies are just that. Since it is mostly the poor, the desperately poor who fill US prisons, the $25 fee is one more economic hardship offenders' families have to struggle with.
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:17P
Guards With Criminal Records Being Placed In Schools
PITTSBURGH -- Across western Pennsylvania, an increasing number of school districts are hiring private contractors to take care of school security, but state law still requires districts to make sure those guards have clean criminal records.
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:12P
Lorne Gunter: Canada's laws on the safe storage of firearms need clarifying
Once the federal government has successfully dismantled the long-gun registry — something that should occur before Easter — it needs to rewrite the sections of the Criminal Code dealing with the storage of legal firearms so that civilian owners do not
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:07P
Bill would strengthen penalties for human trafficking
Kentucky has had a human-trafficking law since 2007, but supporters said Wednesday that tougher measures are needed to address a crime that can involve prostitution, child sexual exploitation and forced labor in areas such as farm work and housekeeping
Updated: 02/01/2012 04:04P
Bill would add nondiscrimination statement to child custody statute
"If we had been a bit more diligent, perhaps, it wouldn't have happened," Anderson told members of House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee Tuesday afternoon. Anderson testified on behalf of HB88, which would add to Utah's divorce
Updated: 02/01/2012 03:46P
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