Last October, when Renita Parker organized the Higher Heights Job Fair in Newport News, she hoped to hook up ex-offenders with decent jobs. Parker is co-founder of Good Seed, Good Ground, a local advocacy group that believes one way to reduce violence in the community is to give ex-offenders who’ve paid their debt to society… [Read more…]
January 17, 2011
A Dallas TV station has a story entitled "Most Texas parole officers say they are overworked," based on a report from the state auditor discussed on Grits a couple of months ago. A lawyer quoted in the story identified the main problem: read more: onespot.wsj.com/…/parole-caseloads-too-high-to-monitor-ex
November 1, 2010
All we want is "proportional unemployment," not preferences. “We” are people with criminal records. We are the people for whom in a "normal" or "typical" economy (remember those?) unemployment rates can range from 25% – 70%, depending upon our relative levels or lack of education. We are not "ex-offenders," "offenders," "ex-cons," "cons" or the like,… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
(By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON Advocate Capitol News Bureau, Oct 14, 2010 – Page: 12A) The state Department of Corrections is contemplating the sale of prisons and the closure of an inmate isolation unit in order to cut costs during difficult budget times. “Everything has to be put on the table,” state Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc said… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
( By Shira Schoenberg / Concord Monitor staff October 14, 2010) House and Senate Republicans failed in their attempts to get the Legislature to reconsider part of a parole law that passed last session. As legislators returned to Concord yesterday to reconsider five bills vetoed by Gov. John Lynch, Republican leaders in both chambers tried… [Read more…]
October 13, 2010
Three more papers in the Progressive Traditions series from the Center for American Progress. By John Halpin, William F. Schulz, Sarah Dreier, Conor P. Williams, Marta Cook The new Progressive Tradition Series from the Center for American Progress traces the development of progressivism as a social and political tradition stretching from the late 19th century… [Read more…]
August 19, 2010
by Peter Weddle (HigherEdJobs.com) Job retraining is a waste of time. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by the U.S. Labor Department (DOL). After studying the experience of 160,000 laid-off workers who went through DOL subsidized training programs, it found that the education neither helped them land a job nor hang onto one if… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
(The Daily Herald, By Tasha Kates, August 12, 2010) As an assistant public defender in Georgia, Darryl Brown occasionally handled cases where he thought an offender’s sentence was extreme for the crime committed, especially for younger defendants. Brown, now the O.M. Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, said he has continued to… [Read more…]
July 12, 2010
The “minority” label inhibits rather than advances equal justice or reform. “Minority” is pejorative jargon. People of color with criminal records: please stop using that term. All people with criminal records are already stuck like gum on the bottom of the majority’s shoe; we don’t need to make pulling the gum from the shoe even… [Read more…]
June 24, 2010
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised how many ignorant Jew-haters are littering Yahoo News with nasty, scurrilous comments about Jack Abramoff working in a Jewish-owned, Baltimore pizza parlor. Abramoff’s first job for menial wages working for a Jewish boss now that he’s left the half-way house and prison undoubtedly proves there is a global Jewish… [Read more…]
January 17, 2011
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