The State Of Illinois is losing a lot of tax dollars because people with felonies older then 7yrs old are unemployed because of a mistake they made. The best thing Illinois can do is pass a law to not go past 7yrs on a background check, more people will be employed and the state will collect more taxes. It's a win win situation. We are asking Governor Quinn to make this happen.

There are too many people incarcerated over possession of marijuana. This costs taxpayers unnecessary money. The prison lobby is trying to keep it illegal so that they can keep their jails full. Save money! Decriminalize Marijuana!

I am writing this petition for the soldier who killed the 14 Afghan people. I need you to sign this petition because the Govt wants to apply the death penalty, for this man. He is a Soldier of Honor. He did a few tours to Afghnastan, He is mentally and physically exhausted. I believe that the Afghanstan people want their country back. I believe that we the people want our soldiers back home. This man is under alot of stress. Brain Injury. I want him out of jail and sent home for medical treatment. They can't do this to our soldiers.Please sign this petition, so the Govt sens this man home.Thank You,

Que el gobierno mexicano, ante el fracaso de la estrategia prohibicionista contra las drogas, explore y abra el debate a las posibles alternativas para enfrentar el problema de las drogas en una forma que acarree menos violencia y costos sociales.

Privatization erodes public control and oversight. Nowhere is privatization more insidious than in the corporate takeover of our criminal justice and immigrant detention systems. For-profit corporations own and run hundreds of prisons, jails, and detention centers in this country. For these companies, every prisoner is a profit center, every crime a business opportunity, and rehabilitation is bad for business

This is a petition to keep a convicted murderer, John F Copeland, in Prison.

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills - against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. R.Kennedy

I have started this petition to bring to light all of the unnecessary actions that the Cal boro cops have taken towards "US" the students; from beating and tazing students multiple times, to handing out fines like candy. A situation happened on 3/6/12 when a student was tazed four times and was also beaten. When a fellow student tried to record a cop quickly shot one last tazer before anyone could begin a recording. This is not the first incident of this situation and it wont be the last until someone speaks up. I myself have been unjustly treated. I felt that I was just only one person who couldn't do a thing; but I learned it only takes one "If one can chase 1,000 to flight, then two can put 10,000 to flight" I would like for those of you who feel strongly about this to sign and even give a brief description of your own experience if your willing to share. Once I have enough I will send the petition to VP Bob Thorn. He has already been notified and he is down for the cause, BUT he states that we need more people to speak up if you want something to be done of the situation.

Most of us have seen the video footage regarding the Invisible Children (you can find it at www.kony2012.com). Let's make more than just one attempt to alert our government that we want focus on the #1 criminal in the world (via ICC, International Criminal Court).

We have locked away our southern women for life, unjustly. They acted on basic instinct and defended themselves against an abusive partner and lost their families, children and freedom. We must make things right, we are their voices.

Haley Barber and conservative members of the supreme court have pardoned hundreds of murders in Mississippi for no apparent reason, while young people while some face long term sentances for minor drug infractions Please sign this petetion to limit Republican governors and federal courts from releasing murderers back into the community.

Trayvon Martin (17 years old) was walking home from the store in a gated Stanford, FL community with a pack of skittles and a drink when he was labeled as "suspicious" and shot and KILLED by an armed neighborhood watch guard. Despite the fact that Trayvon was completely unarmed, George Zimmerman (a white man) believed the young black teen to be dangerous and even AFTER being told by police to "stand down" he took it in his own hands and shot the young boy in cold blooded murder. We're calling on you, America, to stand up for justice and demand that Zimmerman be charged with his crimes! Please sign the petition and pass it on to all of your family and friends! Let's stand together and show that this is NOT acceptable in ANY community! http://news.yahoo.com/family-florida-boy-killed-neighborhood-watch-seeks-arrest-044537742.html