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12 May 2014, 3:11 pm by Bill Otis
  According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are more than 4 million fewer serious crimes per year in the United States today than there were before mandatory minimums were in place.[11]  To reduce sentences for drug traffickers would not only put more dangerous criminals back on the streets sooner, but it would send the message that the United States government lacks the will or is not serious about combatting drug crimes in the… [read post]
7 May 2014, 5:55 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that they couldn’t, finding that it was a violation of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Act). [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 8:20 am by Ritika Singh
We try to generate widespread social disapproval of terrorist acts, including and particularly within the community to which the unidentified individual is attached emotionally and socially, hoping to benefit from powerful moral/social persuasion. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 11:49 am by Stephen Bilkis
While the city recognizes that a long-term solution to the problem lies in providing more units of permanent, affordable housing for low and moderate income people, there is also a need for emergency facilities such as shelters, and for transitional residences which are designed to afford a measure of privacy and to provide their residents with intensive social and welfare services and assistance in locating permanent housing. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 12:00 am
” Prison sentences measured in decades are not uncommon in the United States. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 2:34 pm by Stephen Bilkis
According to United States v Grayson, 438 US 41 [1978] an inquiry into the defendant’s life was essential to arrive at a fair and proper sentence. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 1:25 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging that the state’s social services department is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). [read post]
20 Apr 2014, 4:55 pm by Joy Waltemath
In 2006, the DOL received a complaint from a social worker employed by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), alleging that she was not paid overtime despite working an average 45-65 hours per week. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 5:45 pm
Here’s the abstract: Mass incarceration in the United States has led many state governments to hand over the management and construction of prisons to private corporations, which are able to meet demand more quickly and are perceived as more cost-effective. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 2:37 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
Department of Treasury and you can schedule payments through EFTPS up to a whole year in advance. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 11:02 am by Dave Maass and Nadia Kayyali
Let’s just imagine we could transport an Internet-connected laptop back to the 1790s, when the United States was in its infancy. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 8:37 am by Jen Lynch and Jennifer Lynch
This immense database is shared with other federal agencies and with the approximately 18,000 tribal, state and local law enforcement agencies across the United States. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 10:01 pm by Cathy Siegner
” She said the United States already has an emerging standard format for restaurant inspection scores, which is the letter grade format (A, B and C) that we sometimes see posted in the windows of food service establishments in larger cities. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 6:30 am by Clara Spera
Speaking via video to the Council of Europe yesterday, Snowden said the United States has spied on staff members of prominent human rights organizations, explains the Guardian. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 1:06 pm by Louthian Law Firm
In the United States, millions of pounds of TCE are released into the environment each year. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 11:14 am by Nadia Kayyali
What state or local laws apply to fusion centers? [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 10:53 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
The former Chairman of the Duke Board of Trustees offered that the loss to Mercer “was part of a longer term-strategy to increase the Duke endowment in the hopes of a substantial contribution from an unnamed major investor in the United States, in recognition of the billion dollars we saved him by losing the game. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 8:15 am by Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
(Chisum’s time as an undergraduate and law student at Stanford would have brought him into close proximity to all these developments – Cohen at Stanford, along with the computer science department, and Boyer and “Berkeley Unix” across the Bay). [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 11:36 pm by Andrew Langille
A relative decline in the amount of social solidarity and a reduced role of the social welfare state leaves young workers very vulnerable to shifts in the economy. [read post]