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ISSUES
WE ADDRESS
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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If
you really care, you will become knowledgeable of
and make
decisions based upon the facts!
We
present here some very important links to those who are in the
battle and, in most cases are doing a great job. Other links
provide with connections for information, support and ideas.
If
you do not have
now,
your are paying too much for calls
 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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