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(one from my prison blog) Reassuring your loved one in prison I was looking at the blogs I did last week and I think I counted 12, and at about 4 pages each, that is almost 50 pages of writing last week… Not posts, as some people on certain sites like to brag about…but pages. But I wanted...
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Hi all, hope someone actually reads this...... Anyway here go's...... I started to write to an inmate a while back now, started as just friends, but as time went on,... well I guess I dont need to go on with any details, All I need to say is that I am traveling over 3000 miles to come visit him....
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WE ARE NOW NATIONWIDE!!!! http://time-awareness.ning.com/ T.I.M.E.© Treating Inmates Morally & Ethically© If you hate the way prisons are being run today; if you want to help make changes to a CORRUPT and UNJUST system; if you want to make your loved ones life a little better.... Come join...
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5 Jail Hotels (Where You Pay to Be In Prison): From Comfortable Cells to Nightmarish Slammers A prison is probably the last place on Earth most of us would want to spend the night, right? Well, for some of these converted prison hotels that still holds true: in Latvia, for example, ‘guests’ who pay to...
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Mailing a Letter Will Cost a Penny More Starting in May WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more. The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday. The price of the Forever stamp will go up at the same time, meaning those...
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States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions NEW YORK TIMES By ADAM LIPTAK When a state panel recommended last April that Tennessee abandon the three chemicals used in executions across the nation in favor of the single drug usually used in animal euthanasia, the state¹s corrections commissioner said...
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Editorial: Early release of prisoners has to be considered Prison costs are a big part of fiscal crisis; controlling them is part of the solution Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, December 27, 2007 Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B6 Print | E-Mail | Comments (6)| Digg it | del.icio.us With...
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As the Prison Budget Goes, So Goes the Budget Deficit By: Brian Leubitz Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 10:13:43 AM PST And both are skyrocketing. That we are unable to control our prison spending will lead to just one more in a laundry list of budget disasters in the coming years, but nothing in our budget has...
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2008 looms as year of reckoning on California's prison crowding By: DON THOMPSON - Associated Press SACRAMENTO -- The crisis-fueled momentum that produced a nearly $8 billion prison-spending plan earlier this year has lost some of its steam, leaving the state vulnerable to federal judges ordering...
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Omar Bandar has few recollections of how he spent Christmas behind bars when he was 19 years old. "A convenient self-defense," he says with a laugh. At the time, Bandar was one of eight men stuck in a cell meant for six at Billerica House of Corrections in Massachusetts, where he was serving...