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| | United States article - United States protected deal with vandalism talk page . U.S. Flag U.S. Great - What-Means.com |
 | | The United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A. America,¹ or the States, is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. | | | The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over state law. | | | The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence on the rest of the nation. |
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http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/United_States
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| | NARRAGANSETT TRIBE V. RHODE ISLAND |
| | Rhode Islands Cigarette Tax Scheme is virtually identical to the pass through provision upheld by the Supreme Court in Moe, and under the holding of Chickasaw that is dispositive. | | | While the State Act, like the Settlement Act, recognized that the Narragansetts were not required to pay any taxes or assessments on the Settlement Lands, the State Act also provided that the State Corporation was subject to all of the criminal and civil laws of the State. | | | Although the State Corporation was apparently intended to be permanent, in 1985, the Rhode Island General Assembly amended the State Act by providing an expiration date for the State Corporation and for the transfer of the Settlement Lands from the State Corporation to the Narragansetts. |
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http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/031229narragansett.html
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| | Prisons |
| | An article that will trace the history of control unit prisons in the United States from their beginnings in the early 1970's to the situation in 1992, as a means to understanding their function within the prison system. | | | It comprises of six prisons in the Tihar Complex with a total population of around 11,500 prisoners against a sanction capacity of 3,687 prisoners. | | | Overview of the history of punishment in the United States. |
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http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053930
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| | List of U.S. state prisons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a list of U.S. state prisons (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): | | | Directory of Historic Prisons of the United States of America and Canada | | | U.S. Department of Justice: Prison and Parole Information |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_prisons
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| | 173391.txt |
| | During the same period, the state legislature increased the operational capacity of state prisons by 6,600 beds. | | | Due to limited state funds, a modified version of the bill was enacted, adopting the county-based re-engineering proposal of the bill. | | | Fiscal Impact Statements: Maryland Although certain states mandate that fiscal impact statements be prepared to respond to pending bills that would impact state-funded agencies, other states have no statutory requirement for preparation of these statements and rely on certain agencies, such as a state court administrator, to prepare this information for their legislature. |
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http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/173391.txt
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| | Rhode Island Preservation Plan Profile |
| | Listing properties in the National and State Registers | | | Assistance from private groups of citizens may be necessary when state agencies are unable to provide adequate levels of maintenance and restoration for state-owned historic properties; | | | The preservation of historic buildings and areas is a fundamental public interest, a proper and desirable exercise of the state's authority and leadership and the legitimate concern of its communities and its citizens. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/stateplans/risland.htm
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| | The Cost of Underpaying Texas Teachers |
| | TEA issues an annual list of subject-matter teacher shortage areas. | | | To ensure the state’s economic stability, Texas must recruit, reward and retain a stable pool of highly qualified and experienced teachers that are fully certified in their subjects and prepared to spend their careers teaching. | | | In addition, she stated that districts with large populations of low-income and minority students face the most significant shortages of appropriately certified teachers. |
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http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/teachersalary04
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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Prisoners in 2004 |
| | Reports the number of persons in State and Federal prisons at yearend, compares the increase in the prison population during 2004 with that of the previous year, and gives the prison growth rates since 1995. | | | Tables present data on prison capacities and the use of local jails and privately operated prisons. | | | It includes incarceration rates for the States and the 5 highest and 5 lowest jurisdictions for selected characteristics, such as the growth rate, number of prisoners held, and incarceration rates. |
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http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p04.htm
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| | Rhode Island: State Police Arrest Man For Alleged Molestation |
| | Dutton was released from police custody on personal recognizance last week after State Police charged him with a felony count of possession of marijuana. | | | Under state law, first-degree sexual assault - a charge that involves forced sexual penetration with another person - carries a maximum sentence of 10 years to life in prison. | | | The complaint alleged that Dutton had initiated sexual contact with her on several occasions over a period of several years. |
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http://www.drugrehabresources.com/content.php?cid=1529&state=Rhode+Island
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| | The State Library of Ohio Needs List |
| | List of publications on structure and identification of wood. | | | List of lists...consolidated list of chemicals subject to the emergency planning and community right–to–know act (EPOCRA) and section 112 (R).... | | | List of publications on relation of growth conditions to wood quality. |
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http://winslo.state.oh.us/govinfo/needs26-1.html
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| | Prison Lifting Bibliography |
| | U.S. Dept. of Justice and Bureau or Prisons. | | | The references below about a prison electric guitar court case are included on this page due to those items being a part of the Zimmer Amendment that impacted lifting in Federal Prisons. | | | It also includes a very thorough list of references. |
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http://www.strengthtech.com/correct/biblio/plbiblio.htm
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| | Montana |
| | Once a youth is committed to the Department of Corrections for placement in a state youth correctional facility, the department determines the release date based upon length of stay guidelines established by the Department. | | | Youth Court probation officers are state employees and supervise delinquent offenders on probation. | | | However, counties or a region (collection of counties) administer detention facilities. |
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http://www.ncjj.org/stateprofiles/profiles/MT04.asp?state=MT04.asp&topic=Profile
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| | rkba.faq.2 |
| | Weapons may be added to the "restricted" list (or the "prohibited" list) by administrative fiat, called an "Order In Council," and issued by the Minister of Justice. | | | Though prison sentences are usually short, Japanese prisons often require that prisoners live in isolation, sometimes with little exercise, and have no communication with other prisoners, minimizing risks of prison riots, rapes, fights, and other violence, but at substantial cost to prisoners' physical and psychological health. | | | Australian gun owners must obtain a licence, which requires a background check, and the completion of training classes. |
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http://www.rkba.org/research/rkba.faq.2
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| | Mss231sg1.htm |
| | One exception is a volume of notes from state prison inspectors, 1839-1912. | | | Though some of its inmates have been under federal or county jurisdiction, the institutions seem to have always been operated by the state of Rhode Island. | | | Several institutions were built there, including: the State Workhouse and House of Corrections; the State Hospital for the Insane; the State Almshouse (renamed the State Infirmary in 1917); the State Prison and Providence County Jail (managed jointly); and the State Reform Schools (the Sockanosset School for Boys, and the Oaklawn School for Girls). |
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http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss231sg1.htm
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| | A list of Rhode Island court abuses experienced by Jeffrey Scott Hornoff |
| | Hornoff asserts Judge Krause should have granted 2 motions for acquittal; once after the state rested its case, and again after Hornoff's case was presented. | | | Judge Krause denied Hornoff's request for a new trial saying the state's case was, "presented so convincingly and with such compelling force as to leave no doubt here that Jeffrey Scott Hornoff was properly and deservedly convicted of first-degree murder." | | | It was widely rumored within headquarters that Duquette and Eddie Johnson aspired together to rise to the ranks of chief and deputy chief. |
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http://www.caught.net/cases/hornoff.htm
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| | Rhode Island Parole Board and Sex Offender Community Notification Unit |
| | Statistically, inmates who are released from prisons without supervision are more likely to have higher rates of domestic violence and child abuse, higher rates of infectious diseases and higher rates of homelessness. | | | Parole has been referred to as the “doorway to prisoner reentry” and it is an integral part of the criminal justice system in the State of Rhode Island. | | | The Board is authorized by statute (R.I.G.L. § 13-8-1 et seq.) to consider the early release of incarcerated offenders who have been sentenced to be imprisoned for a period of more than six (6) months and who have served not less than one-third 1/3 of the term for which they have been sentenced. |
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http://www.paroleboard.ri.gov
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| | List Of Things You Can/cannot Send To California State Prisons - Prison Talk Online |
| | List Of Things You Can/cannot Send To California State Prisons | | | this is from North Kern State Prison, but I'm assuming it applies to all california state prisons. | | | However, each prison makes it's own procedure for inmate allowable property, so that list will be different from prison to prison. |
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http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88784
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| | Australia - Amnesty International |
| | In a landmark ruling in April, the Federal Court upheld Naima Khawar’s right to refugee status and ruled that the failure of Pakistani authorities to assist her when she went to them for protection from domestic violence amounted to a failure of the state to protect women from gender-based persecution. | | | The HREOC annual report on indigenous social justice published in June found that indigenous people made up 20 per cent of the prisoner population, despite government promises to reduce the imprisonment of indigenous people which caused disproportionately high rates of deaths in custody. | | | International and national criticism of the government’s refugee and asylum policies continued, particularly Australia’s so-called "Pacific Solution" and the policy of mandatory, non-reviewable detention of people arriving without travel documents. |
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http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Aus-summary-eng
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| | Foreign Prisoners Support Service |
| | Government funding of prisons is less than half the amount required, and corruption and theft are common throughout the prison system. | | | You will be able to find information, and where available, photographs of Australian prisons all categorized by state and/or security divisions. | | | Most of these listings are from family or friends of prisoners, or actual prisoners themselves, and it can sometimes be several months before we hear anything back from them. |
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http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/prisoners.html
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| | Rhode Island State Reformatory for Women, 1930 Index of Prisoners |
| | NOTE: This set of records for Rhode Island State Reformatory for Women provides the prisoners name, date of birth and place of birth, more FREE information regarding these prisoners can be found in | | | Rhode Island State Reformatory for Women, 1930 Index of Prisoners | | | Make sure you haven't missed any prisoners, prisons, jails, penitentiaries, inmates, convicts, criminals, felons, gangsters, outlaws, bandits, scoundrels, reformatories, detention centers, rogues, mobsters, pirates, privateers, buccaneers, court records, execution records, prison records, pirate biographies, famous outlaws & criminals, or any blacksheep ancestors you may have at blacksheepancestors.com |
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http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/usa/rhode_island_reformatory.shtml
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| | The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula: Human rights fall victim to the "War on Terror" - Amnesty International |
| | The authorities’ disregard for the rule of law is having a profound effect on the lives of those they detain and those they condemn to wait for their trial or release. | | | None of those forcibly returned in all these cases were known to have been allowed access to legal assistance or offered the opportunity to challenge their forcible return to other countries on the grounds that they would be at risk of serious human rights violations, including torture. | | | Nevertheless, Ahmed’s legal status remains unclear and his family’s anxiety is aggravated further by the secrecy which surrounds Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system, particularly the lack of access to legal assistance. |
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http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde040022004
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| | Fixing Australia: Bakhtiari family taken: Deported to danger |
| | Australian Democrats SA Spokesperson for Refugees, Kate Reynolds MLC said "this is a further example of the scathing disregard the Howard Government has for vulnerable families". | | | It has actually been admitted by Mr gordon Bennett QC, for the government, in one of the High Court cases of 2004, that there are no legal underpinnings to the notion of "unauthorised" or illegal, used by politicians. | | | Australian Democrats SA Spokesperson for Refugees, Kate Reynolds MLC said "this family has been subjected to the most appalling punitive treatment over five long years by this government, and now the children have been taken from their beds and from the country they know of as home to an unknown and unpredictable future. |
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http://www.safecom.org.au/2004/12/bakhtiari-family-taken-deported-to.htm
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| | Racial Issues |
| | The teachers for the next school year were given a list of names, and were told that the test had identified these children as exceptional learners. | | | Unless otherwise stated, all facts and figures are for the United States, and are current as of April of 2000. | | | In his 1960 State of the Union address, Eisenhower called for a new civil rights law to enforce voting rights for minorities. |
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http://www.justfacts.com/racial_issues.htm
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| | DON'T BLAME INDONESIA : Melbourne Indymedia |
| | Listed below are the 10 latest comments of 5 posted about this article. | | | While most Australians sympathise with Schapelle Corby and her family, let's remind ourselves that she is just one of some 200 Australian citizens serving long sentences or awaiting trial in foreign prisons for alleged drug-trafficking. | | | It seems that while most Australians, including the media and political leaders, were thrilled with the imposition of the death penalty against Indonesian citizens, the same justice system is now considered incapable/corrupt/barbaric of trying an Australian citizen where no death sentence was sought. |
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http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/92141.php
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| | Society of Professional Journalists |
| | SPJ is working to keep prisons accessible and has developed this online resource of state access policies relating to the media. | | | OPEN PRISONS — SPJ’s online guide to state policies governing media access to correctional facilities and inmates. | | | Restrictive prison policies continue to be an issue — and a problem — for journalists. |
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http://www.spj.org/foia_prisons.asp
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| | INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT |
| | U.S Detainees Disappeared into Secret Prisons: Illegal under Domestic and International Law: The United States is holding an unknown number of terrorism suspects in secret overseas locations, and refusing either to acknowledge the detentions or to give information on the fate or the whereabouts of these detainees. | | | U.S., Citing Abuse in Iraqi Prisons, Holds Detainees : The commander of American-run prisons in Iraq says the military will not turn over any detainees or detention centers to Iraqi jailers until American officials are satisfied that the Iraqis are meeting United States standards for the care and custody of detainees. | | | Any violation of the laws of war, international humanitarian law, and human rights committed by its puppet Interim Government of Iraq are legally imputable to the United States government. |
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http://informationclearinghouse.info
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| | International |
| | Since October 2001, the super-secret National Security Agency has eavesdropped on the international phone calls and e-mails of people inside the United States without court-approved warrants. | | | Questioned about the international response after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel should be "wiped off the map" and that the Holocaust was a "myth", Rice told the Fox News channel that she expected Iran's nuclear programme to be referred to the UN Security Council but would not set a deadline for action. | | | Anderson also made it onto the former Nixon administration's "enemies list." G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate conspirator, once said that he and other White House operatives discussed at the time how to stop Anderson including through slipping him drugs though no action was taken. |
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http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/dec/19/19122005ap.htm
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| | Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print » Blog Archive » Fleeing to Canada? Try Cleveland Instead. |
| | By living in a red state, you not only contribute to the economy of the nationalist culture, but you also are helping to give that red state power in the Electoral College. | | | The list of Fascist characteristics of the new Republican elite goes on and on. | | | The number of a votes a state gets in the Electoral College is calculated according to the number of people living in that state. |
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http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2004/11/07/take-back-ohio
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| | Jargon, slang, and niche vocabularies |
| | Many of the terms relate to specific California procedures -- such as "602s." However, since the list was first compiled, it has grown to contain words and phrases from prisons in various states. | | | This is particularly true in prisons, where there is the motion of people coming and going, a culture based on a unique set of circumstances, and the need to speak in words that often carry depths of meaning. | | | The principal words in the Dillons list that also appear in Thorne's are banging (exciting, powerful; from rave culture), boff (a swot, unconnected it seems with any other meaning), full-on (with maximum effort, powerful), large (excellent, exciting; from rave contexts), monged (stoned, intoxicated), safe (something good), and skank (horrible, disgusting). |
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http://www.yaelf.com/slang.shtml
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