President Obama has Regrets about Guantanamo Bay
via ABCFOX Montana
Obama says he should have closed Guantanamo on his first day
CLEVELAND –
President Barack Obama says if he could start his presidency over, he would have closed the Guantanamo Bay prison his first day.
Instead, the president ordered the detention center for terrorism suspects closed within a year. He says the politics around closure grew increasingly tough and “people got scared by the rhetoric.”
Getting Fat in Jail is a Rehab #Fail
Toxic Chemicals Contribute to Weight Gain
During the past 20 years there has been a significant increase in weight gain and obesity in the United States. In most developed countries, current estimates suggest that women, in particular, are gaining weight on an average of 450g per year despite the plethora of low fat, no fat products and multitude diets and weight loss gadgets. Could it be that our modern day, chemical-laden lives are making us fat? Via (NaturalNews.com)
Governor Deal Signs ‘Ban the Box’ Hiring Policy
via AJC.com
By Greg Bluestein
Job seekers applying for work with the state of Georgia will no longer need to disclose prior criminal convictions on their initial applications.
The Indiana Department of Corrections is once again counting on a deck of playing cards to help solve homicides. This is a very out of the norm tactic in which to find killers at large of cold cases. Is this a stroke of genius or an epic fail?
#Prisonworld View – President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons
via The White House – Office of the Press Secretary
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons.
The President granted commutations of sentence to the following eight individuals:
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain – Cheshire County Jail in Keene, N.H., looks more like a small college campus or a tech start-up than a house of detention. There are no razor wire fences surrounding the 230-bed facility; just well trimmed hedges and green grass; and the face of the building has a surprising number of windows. As a journalist, it was a surreal experience to be welcomed by a pleasant receptionist in the lobby, then ushered into the secure perimeter by the warden without being asked to fill out paperwork, walk through a metal detector or even give up my cellphone.
Taxing the Inmates Taxes the Families – Since the subject of taxes is on the forefront of Americans, I thought I’d pass along a poem by Charley Ressee . After you read this, you might ask yourself, what doe s this have to do with inmates? Inmates are being charged to be incarcerated. That is taxing.
Vernon Nelson is incarcerated in a state institution in Nevada. He has a couple of books and is looking for support of his works. You may write him here:
50 Shades of Inmates – Incarceration Does Not Discriminate – When Do We Break The Cycle?
“That’s just my baby daddy.” “ He didn’t mean it. I shouldn’t have been running my mouth.” “ I don’t need school. I just need to get high”. “ Nobody ever got addicted to marijuana.” “I can finish school later.” “He ain’t done nothing for his baby.” Round and round we go. Where we stop nobody knows. The sad part about all of that is we should. We should know where to stop it and how to stop it. It is a tragedy when the constant theme in society has been the same for over the last 30 years. Enough is enough! We need to BREAK THE CYCLE. Here and now. Today. Let’s make a conscious effort to say NO MORE!
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal talks about lowering the Prison Population – [VIDEO] – Keep your eyes on the State of Georgia. The War of Crime and The War on Drugs failed massively. Even the War on Immigration put the state in great shambles. All of the people with all of the brains down at the State Capitol has realized that it is a new day and can’t keep doing the same on thing and expecting different results. Insanity is not the new black.
Inmates Are Not the Only Ones With Addictions – Take the Quiz
The Four Addictions
We’ve discovered four addictions we all have that destroy more dreams, more hopes and more lives than alcohol, drugs, food, gambling or sex combined. When we refer to addictions, we are not focused on any of these. To us, those are habitual symptoms or effects brought on by four much larger causes that are the root cause of those symptoms.
