Docket Program Sends Drug Offenders To Rehab Instead Of Prison
Too many people are spending too much time in prison, so the Attorney General wants to keep some first-time offenders from going to jail. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talked Monday about getting rid of mandatory sentencing for drug offenders, and …
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Court says atheist was wrongly jailed over religious rehab
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) An atheist parolee should be compensated by California after the state returned him to prison for refusing to participate in a religiously-oriented rehabilitation program, a federal court ruled Friday (Aug. 23). A three-judge panel …
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