The police and the prosecutors have to much power in my brothers case the police wanted my brother to give up 3 grow houses or no deal. Let the police do their jobs like in the old days with investigations rather than taking the easy way out and making deals with snitches who have their own agenda. The cop who arrested my brother coerced him into signing a consent form or he said he would arrest his wife and take away his kids by DCF and they even jumped his fence without a warrant. Police are citizens just like us supposedly to "protect and serve" in my brothers case they acted like the mafia only they had badges and guns. We have to reign in this abuse of power. Now my brother the father of 3 his oldest a Police Officer, middle child in a Jesuit private school and the youngest is still in elementary have all been deprived of being with their father for the next 3 years and has never had a violent offense in his life.

Robert and Madison deserve the best in life. Stop the abuse our Augusta Judicial Circuit is supporting.

I have become very concerned with the level of complacency oil companies have shown over the last few years in their search for greater profits. Since the deep water Horizon spill, the largest in history; trains have spilled in ND, bursting into flames; pipes have broken AR, filling the streets; now, on the 25th anniversary of Exxon Valdez, Galveston bay is full of oil. It's time for something more than fines that don't punish those, with billion dollar profits, who are destroying the environment that will support life for our children and future generations. From CEO's to tanker captains and crew, it's time for more criminal prosecution of oil spills like all other toxic dumping.

As someone who spent 10 years in prison for a crime I didn't commit (three of those on death row), I have grave concerns about Tennessee's plan to resume executions this year. I now call the great state of Tennessee my home, and I don't want to see our state risk executing the innocent when we have less costly alternatives available. Paul House, Michael McCormick, and Gussie Vann, are all individuals who were sentenced to death in Tennessee, only decades later to be exonerated, after evidence of their innocence was finally considered. Given the problems with Tennessee's current death penalty system, we cannot trust the system to get it right 100% of the time. Please join me in asking Governor Haslam not to resume executions in Tennessee. Thanks for your support, Ray Krone Ray Krone became the nation's 100th death row exoneree when he was released from prison in Arizona in 2002. Update, October 2016: the number of death row exonerees has risen to 156.

I have been personally affected by this issue and now i see it happening again with a family member. Young people generally do not know their rights until they have been caught up in the system then they begin the process of learning the mistakes they made. The most significant but unspoken fact is that this also creates a perpetual cycle where those who are intimidated into cooperating become leaked as snitches in society both public and privately. Therefore their lives are never the same the are either ridiculed or haunted from then on. Prosecutors create these dilemmas for young men who don't know their rights well enough to plead the fifth "My son was with another family member when a friend was killed. My son is hurt confused and really caught up in the middle of a family/friend situation. So he chooses to stay neutral. Well the detective and or district attorney doesn't want him neutral he wants him to either be a witness or a suspect. Not knowing what to do, how to think. His back is up against the wall. Either you tell what you know and we give you a proffer or you take your chances in court. These young adults or scared. Our fifth amendment should not be used against us in this type of way. This need to STOP......

Angela Corey is known as the "killingest prosecutor," and her reputation of racial bias and overly harsh prosecutions speaks for itself. It's unacceptable. Florida Governor Rick Scott has the power to help us stop Corey. He has the authority to help free Marissa and suspend Corey for unjustly and excessively punishing her.

Corey is known as the "killingest prosecutor," and her reputation of racial bias and overly harsh prosecutions speaks for itself. It's unacceptable. Florida Governor Rick Scott has the power to help us stop Corey. He has the authority to help free Marissa and suspend Corey for unjustly and excessively punishing her.

I am starting this petition against drunk drivers because on Jan.12, 2014 I was involved in a head on. Auto accident with a drunk driver going the wrong way on the high way. I suffered many injuries and had to have several surgeries to repair multiple broken bones in my elbow,forearm,wrist and hand. I also suffered broken ribs and foot bones. I have leg contusions, hematoma of the legs and bone bruise. I have been out of work and the drunk is out of jail on bail denying that he did anything wrong.

The recent hunger strike by 750 of the 1,300 people being held in the Tacoma ICE Detention Center made it clear that the GEO Group is continuing their history of abuse and corruption here in Tacoma. These are headlines our city doesn't want. For-profit prisons create a demand for prisoners that the GEO Group helps create by lobbying for more strict laws that put more people in prison. This is wrong and needs to be stopped.

"Chip Southworth is a lifelong resident of Jacksonville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Presidential Guard and has always been very active in our community. He has worked with the Chamber, the City Council and the Cultural Council regarding his art. Some of his art is currently hanging in the Cummer Museum and he was recently commissioned by the City of Jacksonville to paint a portrait. His arrest and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office's further 'social media campaign,' including trying the case in social media and posting his mugshot, is irresponsible, if not unjust. The family's focus is on clearing his name and helping his wife through her ongoing treatment for breast cancer. The locals love the artwork. He is showing off a great artist who became famous in New York for his graffitti. Jacksonville desperately needs more color, cultural and character since we were just voted " most Ordinary City" Please release Chip and commission him to repaint the ugly large 3'x4'silver boxes (eye sores) around town. It is an enhancement to the artsy community of San Marco. Thank you.

A jail library provides a low-budget, high-outcome resource for education and job preparation for those who are incarcerated. The DC Jail Library Coalition encourages Mayor Vincent C. Gray to provide for the introduction of a library to the jail - staffed by DC Public Libraries - because access to books provides incarcerated people resources for literacy, education, knowledge and job readiness that will ease their reentry into society, and reduce the likelihood of them re-offending and returning to the prison system. Literacy is a skill that directly correlates to many necessities and successes in life, and studies suggest that at least half of inmates are functionally illiterate. “If I were to summarize my experience at the prison library,” wrote a librarian from a Philadelphia prison, “I would say I met inmates who started as reluctant visitors to the library, and then went from being regular readers to voracious readers.” Many inmates and former inmates say that reading provides a way for people who are incarcerated to experience a positive escape from their surroundings and a release from the anxiety, depression and isolation associated with imprisonment. In such an environment, a library brings hope. “People always want something to read in the jail, that’s one thing I know,” said a former inmate of the DC Jail. “People do be wanting books over there.” Several nearby Maryland and Virginia counties - Anne Arundel, Fairfax, Montgomery, and Prince George’s - as well as many other jurisdictions around the country, have professionally staffed and funded libraries in their jail facilities. Washington, DC should join the positive examples set by these counties, and establish a library, staffed by at least one trained DC Public Libraries employee, in the DC Jail.

I am a civil rights attorney who is tired of hearing all the horror stories of cash and asset seizures for the sole purpose of obtaining cash for cities and counties coffers to buy more police and military equipment to seize more assets to hire more militarized police forces to seize more cash and assets to buy more ...