I saw on the cnn special that you have a organization about people helping young men that are in prison for something that they didn't do .
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http://www.innocenceproject.org/
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I've never been there as a prisoner, but I have volunteered as an ex-offender advocate. Sometimes, that has involved going to the site of their incarceration before release. That is a great idea. Also, children of incarcerated people are a very often overlooked "need" group. Good luck to you.
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Nothing would cover it...life in prison and let the other inmates sort him out.\n\nJD
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Goodwill or Salvation Army and sometimes there are other groups too in centers for the poor --in my area there are
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no,  we can not defend this country with a strictly volunteer army as so many men and women will see the others who are so scared or lazy to help defend our country they will be so discouraged they will say why should I do it all and let these sorry asses lay on their butts and get rich while I put my life on the line for them , how many times have you heard the same from men who were working and they see able bodied men on welfare sitting around taking it easy and have as much as they do,and they are right it is unfair, Also our forefathers have warned us of the consequences of a volunteer army, it is the fastest way known to becoming a slave state or a dictator state, what happened to every country who had a volunteer army? so before you decide you want a volunteer army look at the downside is this what you want?  every able bodied man should be required to have at least basic training and be ready for military if needed , not only would it help to teach  our people discipline,more people would be more proud and patriotic, I feel the benefits would be worth it just in the amount of kids going to prison as when they have pride , discipline and patriotism they would not be as apt to get into gangs or other trouble,
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Volunteers in Service To America.\nHere is the link; now you do the work.
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When i was in Washington D.C. I gave a homeless man my $100 dollars spending money. Instead of spending it on something that would probably rot my teeth or brain. I gave it to him, because i knew he was much worse off, and needed it more then i did. and if he was lying, well who am I to judge, God will do that in the end. I was just doing my part and being nice.
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You break the law you go to jail. I feel there are influences that lead these young men down the wrong path.
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They may have once existed...just as debtors prisons existed.  Actually it is the poor that usually do the crime and end in prison anyway.
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Just wanted to add that there is a wonderful support and information group at http://prisontalk.com\nThere is a forum dedicated to just Ohio questions and discussions.\nI've got a "someone special" locked up, too, and this group has helped me a great deal.
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9 years ago 2 men murdered my younger brother. He had met them through 2 young girls that had come to my brother looking for help. They were hungry and had no money, so my brother gave them some food. The following day he brought them some more food and the 2 men were visiting the 2 girls. As soon as my brother left after meeting the 2 men and giving the 2 girls the food, they started planning my brother's murder. They used the youngest girl to go to my brother's apartment and steal his extra key that they had noticed hanging by his door. She used some excuse to get my brother to let her in and when he wasn't looking she stole his extra key. When they knew my brother would be asleep, they used the key to get into my brother's apartment, stab him 4 times, while he was sleeping, steal his things and left him to die. Fortunately they were caught and we went through 2 years of court sessions and a trial. The D.A. didn't go for the Death Penalty (California) because it is hard to get a conviction when it would end up with a death penalty. They were both sentenced to Life + 1 year. We all thought that would be good, but 7 years later, we still have them trying to use their appeals to get away with murder (one of them admitted at the sentencing that they were the ones that murdered my brother, plus the police found my brother's things in their homes and the one was wearing my brother's football jersey when he was arrested). I resent the fact that they can still see their families, they can still breathe, they can still laugh, and try to get out by using their appeals. Capitol Punishment isn't a deterrent, but neither is prison or any other form of punishment. I don't care whether it is a deterrent or not. They killed my brother! He will never be able to get married, have children, spend time with his family, laugh, love or anything else, because they sentenced him to death. They killed a part of all of my family and left us all as victims of their crime. We can't ever see my brother again, he can't share in our family get togethers and holiday celebrations. I will never hear his voice again or get a hug from him. He won't get to meet my other brother's new baby that is due this coming April. We all lost so much when they sentenced my brother to death. They don't have the right to live as far as I am concerned. I think it is very easy to sit there and say that Capitol Punishment is wrong, and that we don't have the right to play God, but if it were your parent, sibling, spouse, child, grandchild, or even yourself that was brutally murdered,and have to sit through a trial where the crime scene photos are displayed, and seeing your loved one brutally murdered and their life blood everywhere, then maybe you wouldn't feel so holier than thou about the issue of Capitol Punishment. Sorry for writing a book, but this is a subject that hits home for me. =-(
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I reported a man who kids use to come to my place of work and tell me mommy and daddy make us do all kinds of sexual things,it was all done in secrect,but,they took the kids away and the grandparents have custody and he got 7 months in prison,she was ordered to stay away from the kids!sometimes,speak up to help these poor children,I do,it breaks my heart!The police interviewed the children and both parents where taken in,I still don't understand why she didn't get any time coz she also has aids and probably gave it to her 2 kids!so sad!I pray for them every night!Young children don't know how to make these things up and that was enough to get him arrested and have the children taken away!
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Hilarious.  Glad they got caught.  Can you imagine the kind of teasing and taunting these guys are going to get in prison?  LMFAO
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You heard the story on NPR this morniing too.  All the lower level soldiers that are now serving time in prison were all scapegoats.  Of course the upper level military authorized it, they came up with the methods.  The US now has secret concentration camps around the world and also has contracted with Haliburton for over 300 million to build concentration camps inside the US.
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Do not forget the jail time, they have harmed the effort  for decent people to get help when they need it. Fines, restitution, and jail time for fraud.
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here is a crime against humanity right here pass it on, no wonder u guys didnt wanna help with this bogus war in the middle east....\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change.    watch to see
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hey yes and your ass deserves to.  All these damn people out here that work hard and try to get ahead in life and you are doing all this shit.  Your ass needs to go to prison.  One trip there, where they knockout your teeth and rape you a few times, and you'll be praying for forgiveness.  You ain't seen a gang until you go to prison girl!  You hate cops!  We'll take it from a cop, you keep on with way of life and you won't be asking whether we think you are going to go to juvy.  You'll be asking why you got caught or why you killed someone.  Your parents might ask the question of why you are in prison or why are you dead at such a young age.  Is living by the laws too much to ask?  You have every freedom in the world execpt the few laws that my fellow officers ask of you, yet you decide to break them.  But I will tell you this, if i were to pull you over one day and you pulled a gun on me, I wouldn't think twice of killing you.  Cause the way i see it, it's either you or me.  I got a family i love and care for.  i provide for them.  You break all these laws, yet your parents will be the first ones to sue me because i killed you when you pulled a gun on me during a routine traffice stop. I might lose everything I have worked so hard for.  My family, my career, my house, my life, and other things that i have bled, cried, and sweat for.  But you just keep doing the stuff you are doing and see where it takes you in life.  Either way I or one of my fellow officers will meet you one day.  The choice is yours as to how.  I could wave to you on the street, pull you over, arrest you for possession of drugs, or shoot you for pulling a gun on me.  Either one of the last two will me that "the cops" that you hate so much will provide you with an escort to your grave.  Have you ever thought of that.  Cops don't want to do some of the things we have to do, but when we are sworn in, we swear to uphold the law, and defend the rights and freedoms of all citizens.  We are here to serve and protect.  We would much rather prtect you than to have to serve you by placing you under arrest.