More re-entry programs are needed for incarcerated citizens returning to their community. Instead of building more jails, develop programs that prevent and help those who become incarcerated to become productive citizens through job training, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, family and marriage counseling, info on domestic violence, children visitation activities, etc.

As a former federal employee I know for a fact that everyday federal employees are required to tell the truth at all times and are bound to do so by both statute and regulation. If a federal employee gets caught telling lies for any reason in the process of accomplishing their duties, they can be reprimanded, disciplined, or removed from the federal service. Members of Congress are federal employees. I have heard many of them tell so many bold faced lies that it amazes me that they are able to maintain a clearance and keep their federal job. Someone should institute a law or enforce the law already in place that requires Fed. employees to tell the truth at all times. If members of Congress lie to the people they were elected to serve, they shall be removed from the federal service.

We the undersigned want the Congress of the United States to pass legislation which would require all gun owners to purchase liability insurance for each gun they own. This insurance will guarantee that victims of gun violence be compensated for their losses. It costs taxpayes about $60,000 for every bullet fired at a crime scene. This insurance would help those who were victims of gun actions. It

Sam Mullet, an elderly Amish bishop, and six other Amish men, including his three sons, have been held in federal custody, without bail, since their preposterous arrest on federal hate crime charges in late 2011. The charges are based upon alleged unwanted cutting of the hair of other members of the Amish community with whom Mullet and others had an internal theological dispute. The Amish community had settled this internal dispute within their own communal system, but sought outside help for what they hoped would be psychological counseling for Mullet. Instead, federal agents took it upon themselves to vehemently pursue criminal charges. Steven Dettelbach, the controversial US Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, charged the seven men with violations of the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act for the alleged hair cutting. In mid-April 2012, Dettelbach's office brought additional charges of kidnapping and destruction of evidence against the defendants, which now include six Amish women. Dan Aaron Polster, an equally controversial federal judge assigned this case, denied bail to the original 7 defendants and these farmers have remained in jail, far from their fields and families, since November 23rd. A trial date has been set for late August, guaranteeing a total crop loss on Mullet's 800-acre farm in rural Jefferson County in eastern Ohio. In a time when a high profile football coach accused of raping scores of boys is free on bond and when a white man accused of murdering a Black teen in a high profile case is also free on bond, it is an outrage that these seven pacifist farmers rot in jail while their crops rot or never appear in their fields.

Tom Petty wrote: Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.    Governor Beshear has the key and must step in and provide justice for Thomas Payne, Jr., his family, and the community to which he wishes to return and make a meaningful contribution.

If a person is charged with a crime in North Carolina and the charge is dismissed or a finding of not guilty is entered, the court in the county of the charge will automatically expunge from all official public records any entries related to his/her apprehension or trial.

We the family and friends of Debra-Ann Harris Thacker murdered in August, 2011 would like to see her murderer convicted. The murderer is giving a plea of self-defense which we all know is not the case for our beloved Debra who could not harm a flea. We have lost faith in the justice system and would like to see just how great our penal system is in the City of Greensboro. Don't neglect the full measure of law in this case because of race, gender or creed. We demand justice and a harsh penalty for the cowardliness murder of our family and friend.

For a person who has a felony or felonies on their record not to be penalized & denied or either their children to suffer when trying to apply for any type of low income governmental housing. Especially if no other form of crime was commited by them within several years. Everyone has the right to be given a second chance and forgiven for mistakes they have made but how can they be if no one will let them.

Many innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit solely because the state prosecutors use their own opinions on who to prosecute and who to give ridiculous deals to. This happens all over the United States and you just never know when it might happen in your family. We are asking for State Prosecutors to be held more accountable in their actions and the use of unreasonably lenient deals to be banned from our judicial system.

Minister Hill was burned to death at his home on Monday, April 9, 2011 a few days before his 73rd birthday.

In 1998 The State of Maryland awarded the limits in civil damages because court ordered criminal records were determined to not have been complied with, then used in a subsequent criminal prosecution. In year 2004, again the same Court Ordered Expunged Criminal Records was used to detain Leslie Vass without bail for one year, resulting in the lost of employment, custody of his 3 minor children and additional confinement.

Derrick Devon Bland was murdered on April 10, 2010. He suffered two fatal gunshot wound once in da head and once in the chest, He was pronounced dead on the scene and and he was also unarmed. The purpose of this petition is to show people they can't get away with taking innocent people lives. The assailant is also connected to another murder that he also commited.