By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine In a June 2001 report by the U.S. Department of Labor called “From Hard Time to Full Time”, they cite figures from the Department of Justice on the […]
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PRO or CON By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine In 1996, California passed the “sexually violent predator” law, which allows the state to evaluate prisoners convicted of multiple violent sex offenses, and transfer them
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By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Long before “substance abuse” became part of our vocabulary, drugs were considered a source of crime. In 1869, the Victorian James Greenwood referred to alcohol abuse, or drunkenness,
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PRO or CON By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine In July of this year, two California inmates filed a suit with the Ninth Circuit of Appeals saying that the parole board was discriminating against
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Do Inmates Have The Right To Father Children? PRO or CON By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Male Order Male? Over the years, a number of issues on the rights of prisoners have been
