Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair
Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair
He said other states, which are frustrated with the growing cost of jailing people for non violent drug possession charges, are referring them to treatment and rehabilitation services as opposed to warehousing them in local and state jails. But …
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Why Does the Environmental Protection Agency Need Its Own SWAT Team?
While the possession of an armored vehicle by such a peaceful city may seem strange, the militarization of the Keene police force isn't an isolated case. … They point to the 1997 Los Angeles bank robbers who pinned down police for hours with assault …
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Violence Risk, Not Mental Illness, Should Guide Gun Access
The new criteria would also temporarily bar possession or purchase at the request of clinicians following short-term involuntary psychiatric hospitalization or when a court sees a “substantial likelihood of danger to self or others. … “But mental …
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Student Newspaper May Go To Court Over Ban On Word 'Redskins'
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a law firm representing the newspaper has warned school officials that it is within the student editors' constitutional rights to reinstate the ban. A lawyer representing the students also did not dismiss the …
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