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Eligible for prison road labor
In for a drug offense? Got out but failed a drug test? You may be eligible for a prison road gang! AP wrote 4 July 2011, GA parolees & road maintenance Georgia is expanding a pilot program that...
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1 in 13 Georgia adults in the prison system —Pew Center on the States
Georgia is number 1 in something: locking people up, 1 in 13 of adults, according to the Pew Center on the States. That costs us more than a billion dollars a year in tax money, 5.9% of the state...
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Interview with an architect of Portugal’s successful drug decriminalization
One of the architects of Portugal’s successful drug decriminalization policy says, “to make demands of addicts who are enslaved by their addiction is senseless.” Well, it makes sense to those who...
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Disparity in Criminal Justice
Is a private prison “good clean industry” as a local leader once told me? According to the CRF [Constitutional Rights Foundation], over 25 percent of black males and 16 percent of Hispanic males spend...
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Time to divest from private prison companies
It’s time to stop private prison profiteering by refusing to take their profit: divest private prison company stock from personal, pension, and church funds. There’s no need to speculate that private...
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How to end the epidemic of incarceration
There are historical reasons for why we lock up so many people, some going back a century or more, and some starting in 1980 and 2001. Knowing what they are (and what they are not) lets us see what we...
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I have become a Fan of Very Supervised Probation —Robert Nagle
Received yesterday on Save money by streamlining the state penal code. -jsq My darling 22 year-old daughter wound up with a second DWI, because the first one was a wrist-slap. Don’t hate me as a parent...
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“I want him in my jail, not a private jail.”—Sheriff Chris Prine
Last week Sheriff Chris Prine volunteered his opinion of private prisons: You were talking about the private jail system. I’d like to voice my opinion of that. The private jail from our study so far,...
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Human rights and war on drugs incompatible —LEAP
While the local CCA private prison contract expired (yay!), the U.S. still has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners, which is seven times our incarceration rate of 40 years...
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Cook County schools furloughing teachers
Cook county schools have a budget shortfall problem, and they think they can solve it only by furloughing teachers. Remind me again why we're wasting $1 billion a year on prisons, including private...
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Videos: Office rezoning, Georgia Power, Alcohol, and road abandomnent @ LCC...
They added and agenda item for 7.p. Solicitor-General’s VOCA Grant Renewal; yes, really, the agenda was so long that’s sub-item letter P and the meeting was 51 and a half minutes long. Longest at...
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Videos: Grants, Budget, Tax, Bonds, Parks, Land, Water, Waste, 911 @ LCC...
The most interesting items were not on the agenda of the Regular Session two weeks ago of the Lowndes County Commission Work Session. The County Engineer had One more thing: Loch Laurel Bridge Work...
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Packet: Raise waste collection rates, appointments to 3 boards, crop sprayer...
It’s back: the Howell Road halfway house rezoning, after being tabled last time, waiting for a full Commission. The Lowndes County Commission will vote on it tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM. All the same...
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Packet: Raise waste collection rates, appointments to 3 boards, crop sprayer...
It’s back: the Howell Road halfway house rezoning, after being tabled last time, waiting for a full Commission. The Lowndes County Commission will vote on it tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM. All the same...
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Videos: Recognitions, Extension Office, Raise waste collection rates, Howell...
Update 2023-04-24: Videos: Howell Road Halfway House approved in split vote @ LCC Regular 2023-04-11. Yesterday the Lowndes County Commissioners had no discussion about what Chairman Bill Slaughter...
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Videos: Howell Road Halfway House approved in split vote @ LCC Regular...
Two weeks ago the Lowndes County Commission appointed Brenda Mims to the Board of Health, Victoria Copeland and Marion Ramsey to ZBOA, and Jane Peeples to the Library Board, all unanimously....
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Howell Road Halfway House rezoning back yet again 2023-06-12
Update 2023-06-14: Packet: Howell Road Halfway House massive opposition 2023-06-12. Apparently somebody sued and the county is going to tidy up by invalidating its previous decision on the Howell Road...
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Packet: Howell Road Halfway House massive opposition 2023-06-12
Update 2023-06-14: Videos: Lowndes County Commission again approved Howell Road Halfway House rezoning 2023-06-12. In the packet for the redecision on the Howell Road Halfway House rezoning, there are...
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Videos: Lowndes County Commission again approved Howell Road Halfway House...
In Monday night’s kabuki theater, after the usual stylized performances, the Lowndes County Commission once again approved the rezoning. The numerous opposition speakers supplied the broad dramatic...
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