"It is an affront to the founding principles of America to lock peaceful people into cages just because they consume or sell drugs" (HLPR). ... "For example, the HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement) program, started by a former federal prosecutor in Hawaii, conducts frequent drug tests backed-up by swift and certain sanctions for violations, usually a few days in jail" (ROC). ... The Sentencing Project is a research and advocacy reform that tries to solve issues in the prison system that many have over looked. The Sentencing project along with a numer...

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Judge Hall did not rule immediately on the defense's request for a new trial, nor did he sentence Celia. He waited until October 13 to pronounce upon Celia, sentencing her to "be hanged by the neck until dead on the sixteenth say November 1855". ... On December 14, 1855, the Missouri Supreme Court finally ruled on Celia's appeal and agreed with the trial judge that the guilty verdict was valid and the death sentence deserved. ... Because Celia was a female, and because she had been ill, had in fact complained of an inability to work because of her illness, they had reason to doubt...

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Though some say that sex-offenders who have been sentenced and served should get their rights back because they have changed, others say they will not change, because they go into the same atmosphere they have been without. ... "Butler started forcing himself on me. ... She remarks how Butler told her that people were starting to talk. ... She proposed going to a restaurant, he firmly objected, because they needed privacy. ... This relationship started when she was going on her first trip away from home. ...

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Statistics and rising crime levels indicate young people had left their homes because of the increase in domestic violence, poverty and instability. ... HIV/Aid infected men are raping children and babies as young as 18 months old, because of a myth they had heard. Perpetrators are bought to do this because they don't have any access to medical treatment for the virus. ... Also, 80% percent of children living with the HIV are in Africa with 94% of orphans in Africa are infected with the virus. Many of these cases are because of the myth, that children, especially orphan children are infec...

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Then the deputy asked Jake a couple of questions about the sentences. ... The family had started practicing law there from the day it was built until 1979, the year of disbarment. ... Jake started working for Lucien Wilbanks in 1978, fresh out of law school. ... He had the lower third of his leg removed because of the bullet Carl Lee had hit him with. ... None of the banks would lend him money because if he wasn't acquitted, how would they get their money if he was on death row. ...

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People often have a hard time associating children with violence. ... Because we come from a prosperous, functioning society with a moral code it is hard for us to wrap our minds around the fact that there are people out there living in poverty-stricken, disease-filled villages in developing countries that are without food, clean water, an education, a just government, and a home where they don't fall asleep fearing an attack on the village the following morning. ... Chaga ended up living in an unsanitary shack, with straw mats, locked doors, menacing guards and several other boys in the ...

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