Recently Cheasapeake city jail has changed the photo policy from five photos of children/loved ones per inmate to now, not allowing photos to be sent in anymore. What they have is what they get. Some of these men/women will be spending a great deal of time behind bars and regardless of the crime committed I dont think its fair they have to go without photos. Visitation only allows children to visit who are age 12 and older. To some of the inmates photos are the only way for them to see thier children.My Husband is one of the inmates at Cheasapeake city jail. We have a 10 month old son together. His son was born wile his Father was incarcerated. He has some time to go before they will get the chance to meet. He looks foward to photos as they show his baby boy growing into a young man. Please help me and others by sighing this petition so the inmates of Cheasapeake city jail (who are people too) can still recive photos. Thank you for your time and effort.

My uncle Lenny Singleton was sentenced on April 9, 1996 by Judge William Fain Rutherford out of Norfolk, Virginia to 2 Life Sentences, plus 100 years in a non-capital offense.No one was injured in the crime. Please sign the petition as "injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere (MLK)."

This isn't about guns. This isn't about left vs right, or whether you like Kokesh or not. This is about human rights. Adam Kokesh is being imprisoned in DC for loading a gun on Youtube. He is being held without bond, without trial, and without bail. He was beaten and his home invaded. For 2 months he was in solitary confinement. Kokesh's "crime" was a political movement--he planned to stage a rally. He didn't hurt anyone, but he's being treated worse than a murderer. He is a political prisoner, pure and simple. America isn't supposed to have political prisoners. Tell DC Chief Lanier to restore Kokesh's Constitutional rights and stop persecuting him for his political beliefs.

Every 9 seconds a Woman is Assaulted in the United States, while more than 1.3 Million Women are victims of Domestic Violence annually. There are 21 National Football League Teams which have at least 1 player on their roster who has been charged with assault or domestic violence related charges. The National Football League should bring awareness to Domestic Violence during October which is the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month observance which will send a message to men and women that we need to bring awareness, education and prevention of Domestic Violence.

Unlike our neighboring states, PA, MD, NJ, and VA, in DE, convicted sex offenders who are classified as tier 1, are only made known to law enforcement. They are not put on the state sex offenders website. They are not prohibited from going to schools, parks, places of worship, or other places children gather. These offenders are considered "low risk "; however, I say to you, if there is ANY RISK to myself, my children, or yours, we have the right to know. There are MANY registered sex offenders on DE website, but this makes me wonder how many more offenders are living in our state that we are unaware of. Unfortunately it seems, DE does not take sex crimes seriously. This law needs to be changed to better protect our communities, but it's going to take us to do it.

The Problem: In New York State it is legal practice to withhold information pertinent to criminal cases from a defendant and his defense attorney until the very moment of trial. This is not because the information is unavailable; it is because the prosecution does not have to turn over such information earlier. For example, prosecutors are not required by law to hand over police reports, prior testimony, and any other evidence to the defendant until trial begins, and in some cases, not until the first witness takes the stand. A prosecutor does not even have to turn over evidence that might help a defendant or cast doubt on his guilt unless the prosecutor thinks it is important. This practice costs both taxpayers and the judicial system a great deal of time and money. The Solution: We request that New York State Senate Bill Number: S4089-2013 gets voted out of the Senate Standing Committee on Codes as new Criminal Procedure Law Article 245, thereby repealing CPL 240. As a result, CPL Article 245 would require that both the prosecutor and defense attorney provide the opposing party with extensive discovery early in a criminal case. In addition, CPL Article 245 would include a mechanism for prosecutors with legitimate concerns about the safety of their witnesses or with on-going investigations to withhold or redact any evidence or information covered by the statute and to move for a protective order.

For family and friends to be heard.

The Canadian nonprofit organization Lawyers Against the War argued in a letter dated Sunday that Canadian officials have a duty to arrest Cheney "as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture.”

The Department of Justice is leading negotiations with JPMorganChase right now, specifically for sell the toxic mortgage backed securities they and other Wall Street criminals use to destroy our economy and steal our homes. The reported amount is a record-setting $13 billion. However, corporate tax law likely allows Chase to deduct all or some of the record penalty they will be paying. That’s outrageous. First they strip the wealth from our homes with predatory loans, then use those loans to blow up our economy, then use the Great Recession as an excuse to steal our homes through foreclosure, and now want to use our tax dollars to help pay their fine. Tell Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase: No tax breaks for Wall Street crime. Our tax dollars will not go to subsidize Chase’s role in causing the Great Recession, creating the foreclosure crisis, and stealing our homes. 1 One of the reasons that Chase is facing this record penalty in the first place is because of work by Action for the Common Good's Campaign for a Fair Settlement and others to push the Obama Adminstration to stand up for struggling homeowners and foreclosure victims. In March, when Attorney General Holder testified before Congress that Wall Street banks couldn’t be prosecuted because of their outsized wealth, people like you joined with 333,000 others from Action for the Common Good, CREDO, MoveOn, Campaign for America’s Future, and the Courage Campaign to demand the Obama Administration end “Too Big to Jail”. Some of you helped deliver those petitions to US Attorneys in cities across the country. And you stood with 500 home defenders from around the country who risked arrest at the Department of Justice in order to demand accountability for Wall Street criminals in May. That action ended with 28 arrests and non-violent protestors tazed, while seven more were arrested at the high-end Wall Street law firm Covington and Burling protesting the revolving door between the DOJ and Wall Street. Then just two weeks ago over 500 of you called AG Holder’s office demanding a strong deal with Chase. You and people like you are true warriors for justice. That’s why it is simply unacceptable for any of us, as taxpayers, to pick up part of the $13 billion tab for Chase’s wrong doing. Tell Dimon: Don’t demand any tax deductions from this settlement. [1] Recent agreements between the DOJ and other corporations show clear precedent here, including one from November 2012 with BP, forbidding them from deducting any of the $4 billion they owe for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. “Government doing more to prevent corporations from deducting settlements,” Washington Post, December 31, 2012 http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-31/business/36103880_1_tax-deductions-million-settlement-federal-agencies [2] "Exclusive: JPMorgan settlement could cost bank closer to $9 billion," Reuters, Oct. 22, 2013. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/22/us-jpmorgan-penalties-idUSBRE99L19720131022?ak_proof=1

Black folks are being routinely stopped outside of Barneys NY by NYPD officers after making an expensive purchase at the luxury department store in New York City. The NYPD has become notorious for targeting Black and Latino residents — subjecting our communities to thousands of illegal and discriminatory stops, searches, and frisks each day that lead to unlawful arrests, constant harassment, and in some cases, serious injury or death. Please join us in urging NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to conduct a full investigation of the arrests made outside of Barneys and to release information about the racial breakdown of suspects arrested, the number of people actually charged, and details about Barneys' role in these incidents.

I believe that the October shutdown of our government was a criminal act that should be imvesigated and prosecuted. No minority can be allowed to obstruct our democratically created laws.

October is Juvenile Justice Awareness Month. Because we are making a documentary about incarcerated youth, we've learned A LOT about whats going on in the system. There is so much that needs to change, and raising the age so that minors aren't prosecuted as adults is one of the easiest ways Governor Cuomo can make a difference. To learn more about our documentary, please visit www.likeanyotherkid.com