It is a complete injustice to send hard-working, dedicated individuals to jail for decades for doing their best to help their students.

This Stops Today Harrisburg, a local social justice group, aims to address institutional and personal racial bias through police accountability and community engagement. We are starting this petition to help our city avoid the tragedies we’ve seen in Ferguson, New York, and nationwide and to build a strong, community-centered model of policing that dissolves racial tensions.

SB 1390 would provide one case manager for every 14 people in the Transition Program, while a parole officer may have a caseload of 80 to 100 people. Let's increase public safety and save Arizona money at the same time.

My name is SSG. Mike Bryant (retired). I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and have been medically retired because of a long list of health problems including post-traumatic stress disorder. Most of the medications that are given out for PTSD have some very rough side effects, including suicidal tendencies. I can tell you from experience that marijuana helps with PTSD, but I can not use it for fear of prosecution because it is illegal in Kentucky. Marijuana has been clinically proven to help PTSD but for some reason most law makers choose to ignore this fact. Will you help those who have sacrificed so much in the name of freedom by asking Kentucky to legalize medicinal marijuana?<

I run a support group for survivors of sociopaths and the devastation that the court system causes these victims is an outrage. there are hundreds of thousands of victims out there who have been abused by sociopaths and who also have children with them. the damage they do to these women and children is despicable and these women ( men) have no voice in court you cant even get a judge to look at this epidemic. the laws and our court system must change.

Women who conceive from rape and choose to keep their children can be forced to choose between pursuing prosecution for their attackers or dropping rape charges in return for full custody of their children. Or, perhaps worse, must face the possibility of sharing parental rights with someone who has assaulted them. Tell Iowa lawmakers that this is unacceptable and legislation is needed to protect victims of sexual assault in our state!

This issue relates to many other issues-undocumented people, civil rights, health care, poverty, and crime.

In December of 2014 I was having a great time at my then boyfriend's work Christmas party, until the unthinkable happened, he tried to end my life. He got angry and wanted to talk outside, when we got to the car he wanted to drive and I said no, I tried to walk away which resulted in him beating me against a car, when I began to scream he strangled me. I went unconscious and he hid my body in the car. I woke up and asked him what he was doing. He had a terrifying look on anger on his face. He climbed into the car and strangled me again. I screamed for help; I couldn't move or breath. I went unconscious again. People pushed pulled and screamed trying to get him off of me. He threatened their lives as he continued to strangle me unconscious three times. Over and over I woke up to a nightmare, thinking that I was going to die. Eventually I accepted that I would but finally I was saved. I was hospitalized. My ex was released on a $5,000 bond within 24 hours of the assault. Then he broke his bond with 28 attempts to contact me. He texted me, left me notes, even used his family and friends to give me messages and deter me from pressing charges. His bond was raised to $20,000, then $25,000. Other similar cases in our area set bonds of over $100,000 because criminal sexual conduct was involved. However the aspect of violence wasn't nearly as violent as in my case. After the trial, his family stalked me, harassed me, and terrorized me. I was unable to live my life without fear and privacy. If my ex boyfriend had a bond that fit his crime I wouldn't have had to move my home, lose my privacy, and my safety. Bond conditions should be a stricter amount and should be increased for all violent domestic assaults. Stricter punishments should follow those who commit acts of domestic violence regardless if they have no criminal history. People who commit acts of domestic violence should be punished as anyone who commits the violent acts on a stranger. Furthermore they should remain in jail for the duration of the trial to maintain safety and security of their victim. If bonds are granted they should be no less than $50,000, and increase as the severity of the crime increases. Additionally I would like to ask legislatures to create a domestic violence registry. Once you have been charged and proved guilty entering into a registry just as child abusers and pedophiles can help keep other women from being victimized.

Breland has been away from his family and friends, for over 11 years. Breland is very remorseful of his past and would like the opportunity to show the world the man he has become. Breland feels strongly about giving back to the community and wants to be a role model to others: showing them there is more to life then getting in trouble.

Anthony L. Massey has been in prison for a crime he did not commit for over 15 years, because he was un-wavering in his innocence and would not admit to the crime by accepting a plea bargain. He was a victim of a trail without appropriate due process: - Lack of proper investigation - Telephone records were never subpoena - DNA test findings withheld as evidence - Local Judge gave mis-leading instructions to the jury leading to a weapons charge - He was accused of breaking and entering with no evidence of force entry - Prosecution withheld a witness that would have proven Anthony Massey's innocents with a viable alibi - Witnesses/character witnesses were never called to trial - Police submitted a tainted report that was typed by a second officer. - Police interrogation videotaped interview went missing - Anthony was denied access to a lawyer and was immediately forced to consider a plea for lesser time as an intimidation tactic - The child identified in the case was said to be slapped by Anthony Massey who has two sons of his own and don't believe in spankings. After throwing out the child endangerment charge because the child exhibited years of abuse, incidentally child protection services was never called. Please sign this petition to Free Anthony L. Massey of all charges and make PLEA BARGAINING A FEDERAL OFFENSE without the support of a lie detector device. We have too many innocent Americans in jail and prison for crimes they did not commit but agreed to take a plea for a lesser sentence. We would also like all cases of 1st time offenders that took a plea bargain to be further investigated by appropriate jurisdictions and given a lie detectors to insure justice and the possibility of innocence. Our judicial system is designed to boost the careers of lawyers, prosecutors and judges by covering up their mistakes and allowing innocent citizens to suffer instead of upholding justice.

This petition requests that President Barack Obama issue an Executive Order -- to remove any and all legal charges made against members of the Organization "99Rise" --for their verbal statements made in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The actions of the members of "99Rise" in the Supreme Court should be formally noted to be acts of true heroism-- taken in the spirit of the original American Revolution which founded the United States of America. Had it not been for the heroism of people capable of acting in such a spirit -- long ago -- the United States of America would not exist.

The Delaware Senate voted on 4/2/15 to repeal the death penalty in the state. The bill will most definitely meet strong opposition once it reaches the House, and needs strong support from citizens who feel the current public policy should be abolished in favor of more sensible approaches to reforming prisoner management and supporting our law enforcement agencies. The death penalty continues to fail as a policy to serve any purpose of improving public safety. It overburdens the criminal justice system, wastes taxpayers' dollars and needlessly hurts more families. It does not serve as a deterrent to violent criminals and is far more expensive than housing these offenders for life. Tax dollars currently spent on capital punishment could equip our police officers so they may effectively solve more cases, and could fund programs to improve prison management and the safety of correctional officers and inmates alike. http://delonline.us/1ao8A5E