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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made one last plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the legality of a federal court's unprecedented order requiring the state to shed nearly 40,000 inmates from its prison system over the next two years, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The Supreme Court will consider the request at private conference Jan. 15. The panel found California's 33 prisons are so overwhelmed with inmates that the ...
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The nation needs to do much more about laws that marginalize former offenders — and often drive them back to jail — by denying them voting rights, parental rights, drivers licenses, and access to public housing, welfare and food stamps, even in cases where they have led blameless lives after prison, editorializes the New York Times. New Jersey — a state with a terrible record — could lead the way. Pending in the state legislature is a ...
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