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Our
Mission is to:
- Right A Terrible Wrong
- Prevent the End of Something
Good
- Make the World a Better
Place
- Increase the quality of
life
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It Is
A Fact
One out of every 75 American males
(men & boys) is in prison. The
number has increased by 3% since last
year.
There are 3,033,321 prisoners today
in the United States, This does not
account for the millions who have served
terms but now retain the title of “felon”
and are to some degree under supervision
of the prison system. The number jumps
to nearly 7 million when you count
all those on probation.
This is a tremendous financial drain
on our economy with a cost over $90,999,630,000
per year! And, this is only an estimate!
It seems that everything we want to
do now is either illegal, immoral or
fattening, Aa the story goes.
There must be some truth to it. Currently
one of every 142 U.S. residents is
locked away… nearly an 8-fold increase
in just a couple of years. Our nation
has a larger prisoner population than
Russia. With 5 percent of the world’s
population, we have 25 percent of the
prisoners! When you consider the number
of people on probation or parole, one
in every 32 people in the country is
involved.
Something is wrong. Our tendency to
lock more people away as a viable solution
to our problems should not be shrugged
off. The present system is NOT working.
See on the net: Bureau
of Justice Statistics.
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Legislative Alerts
Justice: The maintenance and administration of what
is just, especially by the impartial adjustment of
conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards
or punishment; the quality of being just, impartial
or fair; conformity to truth, fact or reason; to acquit
in a way worthy of one’s powers; to treat fairly or
adequately; the quality of performing according to
law; the principal or ideal of just dealing or right
action.
Equity: Justice according to natural (God’s) law;
freedom from bias or favoritism; a body of legal and
procedural doctrines that supplement, aid or override
common and statute law and are designed to protect
rights and enforce duties fixed by substantive law;
or override a narrow, rigid system of law.
—Webster’s & Black’s Legal Dictionaries
President Bush's Spending Cuts Are a Myth - If
you believe the reports coming from the major media outlets, you have
been led to believe that Bush's spending cuts in the 2007 fiscal year
budget were deep and far-reaching. The notion of Bush making
substantial spending cuts is a myth.
12 Year-Old Boy Charged With Possession of Sugar - A
12 year-old boy from Aurora, Illinois was charged with a felony for
possessing a look-alike drug. The boy brought powdered sugar into
school and asked his teacher if he could conduct an experiment using
sugar, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Congress
Attempts to Kill the "Third-Party Threat" - On
February 1, congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Obey of Wisconsin,
introduced a bill, H.R. 4694, that would end viable, third-party
competition in races for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Bush Evades Constitutional, Legal Constraints to Violate Americans� Privacy - After
seven weeks of failing to provide Congress with the details of its
domestic surveillance program, the White House changed direction this
week, and began outlining many of the controversial programs to members
of the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
ATF Director Caused $19 Millon in Cost Overruns - The
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was found to have
$19 million in cost overruns that stem from Director Carl J. Truscott
changes and upgrades to the new ATF headquarters. The Justice
Department inspector general's office is investigating the cost
overruns along with a Senate subcommittee, the Washington Post reported.
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We believe that the Mandatory Sentencing
practice of the Federal Judicial System
is wrong. We believe that the unforgiving
practice of not allowing for Parole
is wrong. We believe that warehousing
of inmates with minimal facilities
for retraining, rehabilitation, education
is wrong. We what to make a difference.
We want to educate policy makers to
the benefits of change and the evil
of the current practices.
We strongly fear that the current
policies of the Criminal Justice system
speaks to the deterioration of our
American Way of life, absent the fundamental
Judeo-Christian ethos of forgiveness.
We work to prevent the continuing moral
and ethical decline of our system.
We want to make the World a better
place. We what to minimize crime through
education and strengthening of our
religious underpinning. We want to
assure the children of incarcerated
parents that they do not have to suffer
the separation and accompanying deprivation
of having a parent in prison alone.
We want to our system to show a human
side driven by concern for our fellow
citizens, the offended, the offenders,
the tax payer.
We want to increase the quality of
life of all our neighbors with higher
standards of conduct toward the incarcerated,
laws that are administered fairly and
evenly with total impartiality. We
want everyone to live in a community
free of crime and feel that through
education, medical treatment and work
we can realize these ends.
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