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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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And maybe not so new?
HAS THE DRUG WAR GONE TOO FAR?
12 Year-Old Boy Charged
With Possession of Sugar
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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.
The "Third-Party Threat"
Are politicians afraid to allow felons to vote. The IRS collects taxes from them. Felons who have "paid their debt" to society are prohibited from voting and there is a definate, defined, pronounced pattern in the way the prohibition to vote for felons is applied.
GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK:
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.
Education is the BEST WEAPON in the War on Drugs.
TREAT addicts. Do not incarcerate them.
Want a job?
Prisoners are paid 12 Cents an hour. This can get up to 50 cents if you work in a facility with UNICORE where regular commercial products are made and sold in regular commercial channels. Unicore is a private enterprise profiting from cheap prison labor.
Ten percent off for "Good Time" is joke. If we go to 50% for first time offenders, we save millions of dollars a month.
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Call your Congressman and Senators NOW.
Tell them we need to save the money wasted on warehousing inmates in the Federal Prison System.
REINSTITUTE THE PAROLE PROGRAM to save billions of dollars each year.
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