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Prison Is a Revolving Door for the Mentally Ill
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, prisons )

Kristi
- 1634 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Prisons often have been described as the largest mental hospitals in the country. A study confirms that perception and suggests that, without more appropriate treatment, many mentally ill inmates are the most likely criminals to be repeat offenders.
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Grant Will Aid Inmates Who Are Mentally Ill
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, prisons, grant, assistancetotheincarceratedmentallyill, aid, mental disorders )

Sara
- 1638 days ago - charlotteobserver.com
Durham mental health professionals think nonviolent inmates who are mentally ill need treatment more than a stay in jail or prison. Thanks to a federal grant, they'll be able to help such inmates quicker.
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Albino Tiger Recovered From Drug Baron's Zoo
Animals  (tags: drug baron, wild animals, private zoo, prisons, white tigers, black panthers, rescued )

Simone
- 1672 days ago - iar.org.uk
A number of endangered big cats, including an albino tiger, have been seized in a raid on the Mexico City mansion of alleged Colombian drug traffickers. The raid discovered a private zoo which was also home to a white tiger, a couple of black panther
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Working to End the Practice of Roadside Zoos
Animals  (tags: roadside zoos, prisons, caged wild animals, l suffering, cruelty, animal welfare, close down, wspa )

Simone
- 1707 days ago - insidetoronto.com
For almost a decade, The World Society for the Protection of Animals Canada has been fighting to end abuses in Ontario's roadside zoos. Also known as WSPA, the organization's goal is to create a worldwide animal welfare movement, which includes making
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Inmates Tell of Sexual Abuse & Beatings in Iraq's Overcrowded Juvenile Prison System
World  (tags: Iraq, prisons, juvenile, detention, children, human rights, beatings, rape, health care, disease, teachers, funds, mentality, Shia control, Sunni inmates, Iraqi vice president Tariq al-Hashemi )

LucyKalei
- 1718 days ago - guardian.co.uk
100s of children, young as 9, held in appalling conditions, take turns sleeping on rare matresses in overcrowded cells, sweltering temperatures without working fans. False confessions, unfair trials; torture, rape. Teaching staff resigned en mass in Nov
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Wisconsin Judicial Accountability Act
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Wisconsin, freedom, corruption, cover-up, politics, constitution, prisons, jails, judges, courts, dishonesty )

Jacolin
- 1868 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
True Prison Reform and Accountability for All. No One should be above the Law. This takes the Snake (JUDGE)by the Throat! If a Judges would have to follow the Letter of the Law again and be Held Accountable. This would end favoritism in our Government. Ci
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Puppy Mills MUST STOP! - PETITION
Animals  (tags: puppy mills, animal suffering, neglect, cruetly, prisons, horrific conditions )

Simone
- 1872 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The terrible suffering and cruelty involved in puppy mills. No more puppy mills, no more cruelty.
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Prisoner for Life
Animals  (tags: chained dogs, prisons, loneliness, boredom, cruelty, suffering, isolation )

Simone
- 1872 days ago - coshoctontribune.com
I saw a cartoon last week that really made me think. Two cats are sitting on a fence looking down at a miserable dog chained to a dog box. One cat is saying to the other, "Boy, I'm sure glad WE'RE not man's BEST FRIEND!" We have all seen them - the
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There's Nothing Funny About Prison Rape
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: prisons, rape, human rights )


- 1880 days ago - prospect.org
More than 60,000 prisoners are raped every year, and yet we treat them as punchlines not victims. It's time to abandon the idea that rape is a suitable punishment for anyone.
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Justice for the Angola 3 -- Please Sign!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: racism, prisons )


- 1891 days ago - colorofchange.org
Please click on "visit site" to sign the petition. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have have endured 35 years of solitary confinement after being framed in a murder that everyone now knows they didn't commit--locked up for daring to speak out against inh
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Report: 1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind Bars
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: americans, constitution, freedoms, usa, prisons, overcrowding, study )

Hanna
- 1911 days ago - wcbstv.com
"We need to be smarter," said David Muhlhausen, a criminal justice expert with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "We're not incarcerating all the people who commit serious crimes -- but we're also probably incarcerating people who don't need to be."
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Furry Friends No Longer Friendly-Outdated Zoos Look at Alternatives
Animals  (tags: zooo, outdated, cramped, cold conditons, prisons, animal cruelty, wild animals, angry, depressed, animal rights, animal welfare, freedom, sanctuaries )

Simone
- 1935 days ago - spectrum.buffalo.edu
Just as animal cruelty is no longer acceptable for Barnum and Bailey, it is also growing in unpopularity for zoo-goers. The public would rather see animals that are happy and properly cared for than animals that are sickly or ill tempered. Perhaps it is
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Privatized Prisons for Immigrants: The Expansion Continues
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, borders, prisons )

Brian
- 1953 days ago - scholarsandrogues.com
The rise of the prison-industrial complex is one the most disturbing things going on in this country, and like the military-industrial complex, both major parties are implicated in the human rights abuses taking place in the name of border security.
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Infection Hits a California Prison Hard - New York Times
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: prisons )


- 1971 days ago - nytimes.com
The epidemic (of Valley Fever) at the prison has led to a clash of priorities for a correctional system that is dealing with below average medical care and chronic overcrowding.
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Other Maulings By Captive Animals in the U.S.
Animals  (tags: sadness, maulings, wild animals killed, zoo animals, prisons, human error, zoo's errors )

Simone
- 1974 days ago - baltimoresun.com
Feb. 24, 2007: A 140-pound jaguar named Jorge fatally mauls a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo before being fatally shot. Zoo officials said later that zookeeper Ashlee Pfaff had violated the rules by opening the door to the animal's cage. Dec. 22, 2006:
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