Immigrants With No Criminal History Get Lengthy Stays at Private South Florida

Immigrants with no criminal history get lengthy stays at private South Florida

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Their treatment — at the hands of the federal government and the Boca Raton-based firm hired to keep them at the 700-bed Broward Transitional Center — has become a growing controversy since July, when a detainee went on hunger strike and activists …
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Time to incentivize federal prison funding

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

A primary driver of this bloated budget lies with the use of prison as a drug treatment program. The federal government spends between $ 21,000 and $ 33,000 on each prisoner per year, and about half of federal prisoners are behind bars for drug offenses.
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Ex-Officer Of The C.I.A. In Hot Water Over Leak

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

25, Mr. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A. officer to a freelance reporter, who did not …
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Marion Hammer: Don't Expect NRA To Be 'Moderate' On Gun Rights

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The NRA was formed to protect America's freedoms — starting with our earliest mission of providing firearms training for those who might be called to serve our country and continuing with our training programs today, which teach private citizens and …
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