We cannot allow Police departments to become gangs who decide who lives and who dies. They work for the people, not the 1 percent.

Mass incarceration in low-income communities feeds a cycle of poverty and crime and does little to keep those communities safe. It’s unconscionable that, through a loophole in our tax code, taxpayers are actually padding the profits of private prison owners who are getting rich off of mass incarceration. I’m fighting to end this outrageous, unjust special interest loophole and I hope you’ll join me. Sign the Petition: Tell Congress to end private prison tax breaks! - Ron Wyden

Sign and share. Put your name on something that can actually benefit our State. Studies have proven that marijuana stops the growth and development of cancer and other diseases. Read the research. Cancer is an epidemic in our country! Take the first step and sign. It's our legal right to have access to the cure for cancer and other medical conditions! It will help our economy. Sign now.

My husband was hit with this once he was released from prison in 2011, and also made to register as a Sex Offender for the next 20 years. In the law it states you must have served your time or completed your probation whichever one is greater and then register for 20 years. Not to have 5 more years to do on a 6 year 6 month charge that he already done his time for. This is a Double Jeopardy and it's not fair to them or their family. He completed his classes for the SOTP twice. Paid for a polygraph and passed. Yes we have been affected by this, because my husband Joseph Fulz is a good honest man who deserves to try and rebuild his life. Why make him do more time than he's already done. If they wanted him to do 12 years then I feel the courts should have gave him 12 instead of 6 years and 6 months to only come home on probation. He completed his classes and was following all the rules. The reason for his violations doesn't have anything to do with the underlying offense. He was charged with 2nd degree Rape No Force, but how is it a Rape if there is not Force. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Please help us try and change the SOCD law. If he has done everything the Government request such as register, then the SOCD should be given if you become a Repeat Offender of such a crime as this. Not put you on SOCD and be a registry for 20 years if not a lifetime. We need help because I want my husband back home with his family.

In 2009, New Mexico repealed the death penalty, replacing it with laws providing for new sentences for life in prison and restitution to the families of victims. But today Governor Martinez is calling for a return to the death penalty--making the state the only one in the country calling for a new death penalty, while at least a half-dozen others are moving to repeal their own. Send this message to Governor Martinez and legislators in the State Senate and State House to show your opposition to a return to this vengeful law.

The children should be heard in court and corrupt Judges around the country are destroying their lives! Let's rally and stop the corruption in Family Courts that's destroying families all over the U.S. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/forthefathersofAZ/ to view judges involved in Kids for Money Schemes and other crimes in courts and across the nation. These judges will need to be held accountable and not allowed to commit these crimes and just walk away. These criminals deserve prison time!

I have called the parole board 30 days ago to contact prison and was told he would be given his medication.

I have been a witness to the disappearance of many young folks in poverty-stricken communities as they are swooped off the streets and sentenced to harsh terms in prison as a result of being convicted of conspiracy. My brothers, Robert (21) and Fatir (20) are at risk of spending the rest of their lives in prison, without a chance for rehabilitation. Please, don't wait until you are personally affected to take action against a charge that essentially is a threat to us all.

My family has been affected as are many others

The family of David has tried every avenue to get this case reopened. The State of North Carolina refuses to help; we need Justice.The family had numerous appointments with the DA office in Harnett Co. The ADA made us believe that this was going to be a hard case to win. The case went to trial a year later after the death of Mr. Worley. The trial began on September 24, 2013 at the Harnett Co Court House. The ADA started with his opening state and had several witnesses to testify to what occurred on July 13th in the death of Mr. Worley. It appeared that the case was going great and there was over 66 pieces of evidence presented in court that clearly showed the guilt of Toni Talley killing her husband. The court even allowed the integration video to be shown in court that was done with the lead detectives and Toni Talley. The Doctor from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office shared that he found the stab wounds and made the addendum to Mr. Worley death certificate with the new manner of death of Homicide (from Stab wound of the posterior chest (back). 1006 S.

Rapist cannot escape their crimes without at least registering as a sex offender it sends the wrong message this is tolerated.

The Department of Justice announced that it is cancelling its contracts with private prison companies because of dangers and abuses outlined in exposés and a recent official government report(1). However, the majority of federal private prison contracts are actually held by the Department of Homeland Security for its sprawling immigrant detention facilities. While private prisons make up 8% of the prison population, they made up 62% of immigrant detention in 2014(2). In the wake of the Dept. of Justice announcement(3), the stock price for the main private prison companies plummeted. But they've told shareholders that immigrant detention is a stable investment and a growth industry. The Department of Homeland Security even has plans to open a NEW detention center to house transgender detainees in Texas. But all of those immigrant prisons are also dangerous and riddled with abuses. 12 people have died just at a single Corrections Corporation of America facility, the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona. Conditions there prompted a call for a Congressional investigation after a suspicious "suicide" last summer(4) and there are multiple demands for investigation into four sexual assault cases where guards are accused of abusing detainees. What is true about the findings of private prisons under the Department of Justice is true in immigrant detention under the Department of Homeland Security only at a larger scale. As long as private prisons exist, they'll just be recycled between government agencies. With the Department of Justice moving to end its contracts, private companies today will be looking for new customers and the Obama administration needs to make sure that DHS and no other government agency will be their clients. As we push for an end to immigrant detention, sign to remove the profit motive from detention. Background: 1. Inspector General Report on Private Prisons https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/e1606.pdf#page=2 2. The Problem With The DOJ’s Decision To Stop Using Private Prisons https://thinkprogress.org/the-federal-government-is-not-actually-ending-private-prisons-40e8c8dbf976#.uz5q79a4c 3. The Dept. of Justice Will Stop Using Private Prisons http://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12536310/private-prisons-bureau-of-prisons 4. The Strange Death of Jose de Jesus http://latinousa.org/josedejesus/