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Ex-CCA official: Puryear misled clients
A former Corrections Corporation of America manager is accusing the company's general counsel and federal judicial nominee Gus Puryear IV of overseeing a practice that produced misleading reports about safety incidents at its prisons.
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CRS, Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration into the Community, and Recidivism
Three phases are associated with offender reentry programs: programs that take place during incarceration, which aim to prepare offenders for their eventual release; programs that take place during offenders' release period, which seek to connect exoffend
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Subprime-Crisis Lawsuits 2008: By the Numbers
Two months ago, when the Law Blog got an early look at a breakdown of subprime crisis-related lawsuits filed in federal courts in 2007, Jeff Nielsen, head of Navigant Consulting, which conducted the study, told us “this is just the beginning.”\nNielse
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Recommendations to JISC on access (4/25/08)
Alma Swan, Key Concerns Within the Scholarly Communication Process, Key Perspectives, March 2008. A report to the JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group.
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TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Today's Must Read
The latest: Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law teamed up to press in a lawsuit for the release of documents related to the administration's programs of secret det
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Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
The social, physical and economic environments in which we are born, live and work can actually get under our skin as surely as germs and viruses. Because these conditions are distributed unequally—in the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the schools we
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New guidelines cut sentences for 3,000 crack offenders (4/24/08)
More than 3,000 crack cocaine convicts have had their prison sentences cut since the federal government eased harsh penalties for drug crimes overwhelmingly committed by blacks.
A U.S. Sentencing Commission study released Thursday says it is not immediat
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Officials question cost, scope of e-mail storage measure (4/24/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
A House bill to force the White House and federal agencies to improve e-mail retention received general support Wednesday from the National Archives, GAO and public advocacy groups, but the organizations diverged on whether the measure is too strong or to
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Only 3 percent of feds, contractors have received new ID cards (4/24/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
Federal agencies still have a long way to go to meet the Bush administration's 2008 deadline for issuing new credentials.The Office of Management and Budget released a report on Thursday indicating that 97 percent of employees and contractors have yet to
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TSP finalizes rules on fund transfer restrictions (4/24/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
Beginning May 1, Thrift Savings Plan participants will be limited to two interfund transfers per calendar month, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board announced on Thursday.The regulation, published in the Federal Register, rebuked frequent trade
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We can do it! | Library Stuff
To help clients keep current, I read alot. Whether it be e-mail alerts, RSS feeds, or text messages, I read everything I can get my hands on that could possibly have an effect on the work of the attorneys I work for. It’s a passion of mine and always ha
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Dragging Big Business to Disclosure - New York Times
Resisting every inch of the way, the powerful National Association of Manufacturers has finally agreed to follow Congress’s new ethics law and disclose which of its members have been funding its lobbying operations on Capitol Hill.
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