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...Many of the foreign inmates are awaiting repatriation to their home countries, under bilateral prison transfer agreements. But their departure requires the necessary paperwork to be completed by the notoriously slow Venezuelan bureaucracy. "Obviously if you've got people being killed all the time, you want the prison transfer agreement to work," a consular official at one embassy said...
...Officials at three Western embassies in Caracas say Interior Minister Pedro Carreno has not signed a single transfer document for their nationals since President Hugo Chavez appointed him in January - and they're getting antsy. They said that at a recent meeting with ministry officials, representatives from every major embassy grumbled that they were in the same predicament The ministry did not respond to requests for comment...
...This shift in strategy did not go over well with the Fourth Circuit, which blocked the transfer until the feds could explain what looked like an improper attempt to manipulate the case. No matter. In April 2006 the Supreme Court refused to hear Padilla's appeal and allowed the criminal charges to proceed before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke...
...hoping [the funding] will help provide some support for junior faculty...and encourage them to make Massachusetts their home.” A portion of the $1.25 billion will also go to create “Life Science Innovation Centers” aimed at speeding the transfer of technology from labs to the market. Harvard officials did not know where those centers would be located, but Brock Reeve, HSCI’s executive director, said Patrick’s commitment to geographic diversity would likely mean that planners would have to reconcile this aim with the existing distribution of biomedical...
Klein plans to greatly expand the number of transfer schools and YABCS over the remaining 2 1/2 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. Replicating successful programs is always tricky, but in this case there's a peculiar obstacle. Under state- and federal-accountability rules, schools full of students who don't graduate on time are labeled failing. By that definition, YABCS and transfer schools fail no matter how brilliant a job they are doing. "It's hard to get partners to invest and hard to attract strong leaders when the school is labeled failing," says Hamilton...