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...current structure of the CORI, which seals felony offenders’ records 15 years after their release, and 10 years after release for misdemeanors. It is no wonder that, in a study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Justice, 67.5 percent of released prisoners are rearrested for a new crime within three years of release. The CORI effectively serves as a scarlet letter on job applications: inviting censure and exclusion, regardless of the offender’s contrition or rehabilitation. The CORI reform bill currently up for debate in the Massachusetts legislature, proposes to change all of this. The reforms...
...Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. After a series of bills, the Military Commission Acts was adopted in 2006 and gave the U.S. President absolute powers to label a non-American citizen an enemy of the state, imprison him without charging him with a crime, and deny him the right to due process. In view of the fact that this act is obvious breach of the Bill of Rights, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has called it a rejection of core American values. Since this does not affect American citizens’ right to habeas...
...Street Kings (an oddly static and generic title for a movie that seethes with deranged energy) comes from Southern California's dark romancer of violent cops, James Ellroy - or, as he calls himself, the "king of American crime fiction." Unlike L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, this movie isn't based on an Ellroy novel. It comes from an original script of Ellroy's that two lesser scribes worked over. But under David Ayer's direction it's still got Ellroy's arrhythmic pulse, careering from one high-caliber confrontation to another. The movie is in love with the boys...
...Brits have all but given up on our disaffected youth. Their surly demeanor and vicious behavior are a consummate failure of the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down on you, with all the consequent...
...given that Burma's generals (who prefer to call their country Myanmar) rejected a plea by the United Nations to allow international monitoring of the referendum, no outside observer will be able to indicate whether voting irregularities take place. Furthermore, a February law has made criticizing the referendum a crime punishable by imprisonment - hardly an ideal environment for open debate on the charter draft. Amnesty International estimates 700 political prisoners still crowd the country's jails as a result of last year's protest movement...