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Russia Issues Travel Warning to Its Citizens About U.S. and Extradition

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“‘Warning for Russian citizens traveling internationally,’ the Foreign Ministry bulletin said. ‘Recently, detentions of Russian citizens in various countries, at the request of American law enforcement, have become more frequent — with the goal of extradition and legal prosecution in the United States.’  Citing examples in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Lithuania and Spain, the Foreign Ministry said, ‘Experience shows that the judicial proceedings against those who were in fact kidnapped and taken to the U.S. are of a biased character, based on shaky evidence, and clearly tilted toward conviction.'”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/world/europe/russia-issues-travel-warning-about-united-states.html?_r=0

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Jacob Hornberger: Dismantle the International Checkpoints

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“What’s fascinating is that Canadian officials aren’t overly paranoid about the people moving freely within Canada but U.S. officials are. Conversely, U.S. officials aren’t paranoid about people moving freely within the United States but Canadian officials are. Each side thinks the other side is just filled with drug dealers, drug users, communists, and terrorists who would immediately cross the border and start freely moving within the adjoining country if there were no checkpoints between the two countries. Why do people have a system that permits such nonsense? Because they have all grown up with it and therefore they just accept that it’s a permanent part of life.”

http://fff.org/2013/09/27/dismantle-the-international-checkpoints/

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It Won’t Stay in Vegas: The Metro PD’s Homeland Security Theater

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“Las Vegas, like every other city, does face a lethal threat from people who consider themselves emancipated from the law and entitled to kill without accountability. Like the Sovereigns, those people speak in a specialized language that supposedly legitimizes their lawlessness, and that makes no obvious sense to rational people who don’t belong to their clique. The Las Vegas branch of this domestic terrorist movement maintains a fraudulent ‘court’ where criminal actions, up to and including murder, are ratified. However, the crimes committed by that state-sanctioned terrorist syndicate are neither hypothetical, nor uncommon.”

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/09/it-wont-stay-in-vegas-metro-pds.html

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“For Their Own Protection”: Children in Long-Term Solitary Confinement

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“Solitary confinement was once a punishment reserved for the most-hardened, incorrigible criminals. Today, it is standard practice for tens of thousands of juveniles in prisons and jails across America. Far from being limited to the most violent offenders, solitary confinement is now used against perpetrators of minor crimes and children who are forced to await their trials in total isolation. Often, these stays are prolonged, lasting months or even years at a time.  How can a practice be both widespread and hidden? State and federal governments have two effective ways to prevent the public from knowing how deep the problem goes.”

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Private Probation Firm Illegally Extended Sentences, Judge Finds

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“Last week, a Georgia county judge ruled that Sentinel Offender Service had illegally extended the sentence of Mantooth and potentially thousands of others who were required to pay the firm monthly probation fees, and was illegally ordering electronic monitoring for misdemeanor offenders — prohibited by state law — while charging probationers for their own monitoring.  Other named plaintiffs in the pair of cases were hauled off to jail and/or subjected to electronic monitoring for alleged probation violations six years after their probation had ended for minor offenses like possession of marijuana and no proof of insurance.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/24/2666401/private-proba/tion-firm-illegally-extended-sentences-judge-finds/

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Michael Douglas slams U.S. prison system after Emmy win

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“Backstage, Douglas elaborated: ‘My son is in federal prison. He’s been a drug addict for a large part of his life. Part of the punishments — if you happen to have a slip, and this is for a prisoner who is nonviolent, as about a half-million of our drug-addicted prisoners are — he’s spent almost two years in solitary confinement. Right now I’ve been told that I can’t see him for two years. It’s been over a year now. And I’m questioning the system.’ Continued Douglas: ‘Obviously at first, I was certainly disappointed in my son. But I’ve reached a point now where I’m very disappointed with the system.’ Cameron Douglas is currently serving a sentence of nearly 10 years for non-violent drug offenses.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/22/michael-douglas-prison-emmy/

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How Private Prison Companies Make Millions Even When Crime Rates Fall

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“The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest owner of private prisons, has seen its revenue climb by more than 500 percent in the last two decades. And CCA wants to get much, much bigger: Last year, the company made an offer to 48 governors to buy and operate their state-funded prisons. But what made CCA’s pitch to those governors so audacious and shocking was that it included a so-called occupancy requirement, a clause demanding the state keep those newly privatized prisons at least 90 percent full at all times, regardless of whether crime was rising or falling. Occupancy requirements, as it turns out, are common practice within the private prison industry.”

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

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Rand Paul: ‘I Ask That We Begin The End Of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing’

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“Paul mentioned other examples of draconian mandatory minimums, including the 55-year sentence that Weldon Angelos, a 24-year-old Utah music entrepreneur, received for a few small pot sales. Brett Tolman, a former U.S. attorney for Utah, noted that the DEA could have busted Angelos after the first undercover buy but waited for two more, knowing that Angelos’ possession of a gun would trigger stacked sentences adding up to more than half a century. Paul also cited Edward Clay, an 18-year-old first-time offender who got 10 years after he was caught with less than two ounces of cocaine, and John Horner, a 46-year-old father of three who got a 25-year mandatory minimum.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/09/18/rand-paul-i-am-here-to-ask-that-we-begin-the-end-of-mandatory-minimum-sentencing/

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Boston bomb victims who cash survivor checks lose state health insurance

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“Months after the Boston Marathon bombing, J.P. Norden is still recovering from losing his leg, but he can’t cash a $1.2 million check provided to survivors because he would lose his state health insurance for the poor.  Norden, and his brother Paul, both had legs amputated and received identical checks as part of the $60 million being distributed by One Fund charity. They told The Washington Post that they are very aware they would quickly use up the $1.2 million with their ongoing medical expenses.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/16/boston-bombing-victims-who-cash-survivor-checks-face-losing-health-insurance/

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U.S. Court: Journalist Barrett Brown Can’t Talk To The Press Any More

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“We just wrote about the ridiculousness of Barrett Brown’s case, in which he’s been in jail and facing a very long sentence mainly for copying a URL from one place to another, but also because the feds have been seeking a media gag. Tragically, the court has now granted that gag order. Neither Brown nor his legal team is allowed to speak to the media. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect Brown and his legal team to try to draw attention to the ridiculousness of the case, and the only purpose of this sort of gag order is to silence the press and keep the story from getting the kind of attention it deserves, as yet another example of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130904/16463324406/court-tells-journalist-barrett-brown-he-his-lawyers-cant-talk-to-press-any-more.shtml

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