I have noticed that people that are being found guilty of drug charges are being sentenced to extremely heavy prison terms, especially with the federal government cases. It seems as if persons with drug charges are being more heavily punished then persons found guilty of murder, raped and other violent crimes. It appears that the government is more focused on drug dealers than missing people, domestic violent, homeless individuals, the economy, rising minimum wage, cold case files, and many more serious problems happening in our country. Stand up and put a stop to over punishing what is not as important over things that are much more important.

I was deeply disturbed by this column in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-should-force-police-to-come-clean-over-shooting-of-unarmed-john-geer/2014/10/15/7be2d804-54b2-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html?hpid=z2

On July 16th 2014, 22 yr old mother Natasha Adams rode her bicycle to work, Natasha had just dropped her 3 yr old son off at his daycare moments before,unfortunately Natasha never made it to work, Natasha was hit and killed by a distracted driver. The consequence for the driver who caused the death of a precious life was much too easy, receiving only 2 traffic citations. There is no laws in South Dakota with harsher penalties and consequences for Drivers who are sober and kill pedestrian/bicyclists while distracted or negligent. If you are driving distracted and you should take a life you should be held accountable to the same extent as an individual under the influence receiving jail time as well as losing your Operators license. Support Natasha’s Law to bring change to South Dakota and Make our Streets and Hiway’s safer. Maybe the next life that is spared will be yours.

My name is Doug DiZoglio, and I live in Bay County, Florida. On Jan 14 2013, a Bay County deputy entered my home uninvited, without warrant, without cause, and without procedure. He demanded I give him my dog, saying "You will give me that f**** dog, Mr. DiZoglio.” I responded by telling him to leave my house and said "If you are not the police or a deputy at this time, just an armed intruder, then I am about to call 911 to have you arrested. Please leave." At that point he charged at me and began beating me. He cuffed me and said if I ever speak of this to anyone he will be back to finish this. Then he uncuffed me, repeated the threat, and left. While this happened, an animal control officer also came into my home and took my dog, dragging him by the neck out of the house and to the shelter. I reported this to Internal Affairs, but there was no action. The deputy did not do his incident report until 5-6 weeks later, and it was a story I had to work hard to recognize. There was no accountability, from either the Sheriff’s Office or Animal Control. They break the laws, hurt us, and do it without fear of consequence. Isn’t it the job of the Sheriff’s Office to help the public feel safe? Isn’t it their job to supervise their deputies? Isn’t it their job to respond to honest reports of harm done to citizens? Please sign my petition, saying you agree that things are out of control and that we the public demand accountability.

I have been personally affected by this losing 14+Years of my life for a crime I am innocent of. Please help me get the Justice deserved. We need this case opened and the actual killer deserves to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Please sign on and allow Justice to be reached for me as well as the family of TJ Emfinger. Thank you and God bless!

I have a brother who was given 50 yrs for aggravated assault, that was never proven he did. He was a business owner with no previous background history. Injustice like that has to stop.

My son Pavielle Walton, has been housed at the county jail here in the state of Arizona every since February 2012. I have tried several of our black leaders to come and see what's going on and know one is willing to come and see how corrupt their system is for people of color. I have reached out to Al sharpton, the Nation of Islam and the NAACP as well but no help.

Due to the law put in place to stop the illegal distribution of narcotic drugs by doctors or better known as pill mills and other narcotic traffickers a greater crime has occurred. The law was made into law to stop a crime that effects our society but at the same time the law is targeting the innocence, paving the way to a law that is a crime in it self. Patients such as myself who are not drug addicts, drug dealers or criminals suffering from chronic pain illnesses are being victimized and have been victimized due to this law and the advocate responsible for the creation of a law that oppresses, legally discriminates, causing fraud, forms of malpractice, deformation of character moral and humanitarian crimes against humanity. I myself and many other patients suffering from chronic pain cant find help because of this law that is and has violated our rights to receive care and treatment for our chronic conditions which is caused the innocence to suffer. A doctor because of Steve Beshear tried to frame me and then pushed me out of the clinic because she due to the Governor and the law was afraid to treat me for my condition after seeking help else where from another doctor they express they can not help me because of the new law and refuse to treat my condition I have evidence of the framing and prove they admit it is wrong and false. People in this state cant even be seen by a doctor if they have chronic pain. This law and what this Governor has done is a violation of basic human rights, needs and patient right and treatment needs which therefore is crime against our rights and our humanitarian rights and is crimes against humanity its self. Sign the petition, Stop the law, Put an end to the suffering.

We, the undersigned, are writing in support of the demands of Mexican protesters and to express our indignation about the horrible events of Friday, September 26, 2014, when six people, three of them students, were assassinated and 43 other students were disappeared from the Rural Normal School “Raul Isidro Burgos” in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, and when two teachers two teachers from the State Coordinators of Workers of the Education of Guerrero were mortally wounded. The persecution and assassinations of the students by the Municipal Police of Iguala and by groups dressed in civil uniforms is extremely alarming to the international community - especially those of us who stand with these students and teachers who were organizing to defend their right to public education - and provides concrete evidence of the lack of guarantees for anyone to exercise their basic human rights, such as those of to petition, demonstrate, and organize. We demand that your government act immediately to guarantee that the 43 students who were disappeared return alive. We also demand that those responsible for the assassinations and the persecutions, be punished to the fullest extent for their heinous crimes. We believe that the fight to defend public education and the human and political rights of all the people in our countries is a righteous and just fight, and we demand that you use your positions to bring about justice for these murdered and disappeared freedom fighters. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: (Fact Report from Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan) On September 26, 2014, at 9 pm, 80 students from the Rural Normal School (teacher training college), “Raul Isidro Burgos,” were headed by bus to the city of Chilpancingo from the city of Iguala. As they were leaving the bus station, police cars suddenly blocked the exit of the station and began firing their weapons intermittently without any warning whatsoever. One student was wounded and still remains in a hospital in a “vegetative state.” The students who were in the back of the bus were violently removed by the police, who forced them to lie in the street by a store. The rest of the students ran in different directions, while the municipal police continued to fire their weapons for almost 40 minutes. At midnight, as the students were informing other organizations about the attacks, a van arrived and a number of armed people jumped out and started randomly and indiscriminately firing their assault weapons. Two students, Daniel Solis Gallardo and a first year student, were killed; five students and two professors were gravely wounded. This second armed aggression lasted about 15 minutes. On September 27, Normalista students appeared at the “Fiscalía de la zona Norte de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Guerrero (PGJE) (government judicial state offices), where they were told that no students had been detained. During the second armed attack many of the students had run away to escape the gunfire. Fifty-seven of them were now considered disappeared, including those who were detained by the municipal authorities in the first attacks. After the 27th, 14 students came out of hiding but 43 students still remain missing. At 4:00 pm, the students at the government judicial state offices (PGJE), the Public Minister informed the students who were at the state office that just three blocks away from the site of the attacks the corpse of one of the students had been found who had visible signs of torture. His eyes had been gouged out and his face had completely skinned. After being identified by his classmates, it was confirmed that it was the body of Julio Cesar Fuentes Mondragon. On these grounds, a legal complaint was lodged on September 28,2014 denouncing the crimes related to the dangerous disappearance of, of the 57 students (now 43), which was filed under the prior investigation VRA/03/2385/2014 in the State Office(PGJE) of Chilpancingo. A legal complaint has also been filed with the “Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Guerrero,” the State Commission for Human Rights of the State of Guerrero. The assassination of the three students, the situation of those who were gravely wounded and the disappeared students all constitute grave and serious violations of human rights that cannot remain unpunished. These acts are evidence that the Municipal Police used excessive force in and that there was a failure by the state and federal authorities to implement appropriate preventive and security measures to avoid the second armed aggression, as well as to stop the disappearance of the students.

The Department of Corrections has created a sex offender house in your neighborhood. They need to change their policy of establishing housing for sex offenders without first determining if the location is appropriate. When this house was established in July, no contact was made with the town, the local police or the Department of Education. If they had looked at the number of single women and children in this area, it would have been clearly seen that this is no place for a sex offender house. The DOC needs to revise their policy and remove their house from this neighborhood.

A prisoner of a violent crime was released to a work center after only 7 months of. 10.5 year sentence. She killed 14 year old child and pleaded guilty. She should be in prison, she should not be in a work center

We have an epidemic of drug addiction and it's only going to grow if we don't make some major changes. We need to stop the revolving doors to our prisons and jails. It's been proven that sentencing people with addiction issues to jail/prison and releasing them over and over isn't working and it's costing taxpayers millions of dollars. According to the Minnesota House of Representatives, it costs approximately $32,700 of taxpayer money every year for each inmate as opposed to $2000 to $7000 for treatment. We need rehabilitation not incarceration. We need more treatment centers that people can afford without lengthy waiting lists so when a loved one says they want/need treatment they can get in somewhere ASAP. Waiting could mean more jail or possible death due to an overdose. Let's wake up!!