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America leads the WORLD in incarceration rates. We have always been proud to be the World’s leader in protecting Human Rights. Yet we are one of the World’s biggest violater’s. How can we defend people in other countries when we don’t even take care of our own anymore?
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy
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LETTERS - July 4, 2008
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LETTERS - Current Campaign
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'Badly Fragmented' Forensic Science System Needs Overhaul
Evidence to Support Reliability of Many Techniques Is Lacking
WASHINGTON -- A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the nation's forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research. Rigorous and mandatory certification programs for forensic scientists are currently lacking, the report says, as are strong standards and protocols for analyzing and reporting on evidence. And there is a dearth of peer-reviewed, published studies establishing the scientific bases and reliability of many forensic methods. Moreover, many forensic science labs are underfunded, understaffed, and have no effective oversight.
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THE LONG REACH OF
AMERICAN CORRECTIONS
from the PEW Center on the States
After an extraordinary, quarter-century expansion of American prisons, one unmistakable policy truth has emerged: We cannot build our way to public safety.
Serious, chronic and violent offenders belong behind bars, for a long time, and the expense of locking them up is justified many times over. But for hundreds of thousands of lower-level inmates, incarceration costs taxpayers far more than it saves in prevented crime. And new national and state research shows that we are well past the point of diminishing returns, where more imprisonment will prevent less and less crime.
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State Chairpeople & Individual State Information
Smart on Crime:
Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress
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California Members - don't miss your chance to provide
input on the proposed changes to Title XV regarding
lethal injection. Tell them you oppose the death penalty!
Go to the California page for more information.
