ACSOL’s Conference Calls

Conference Call Recordings Online
Dial-in number: 1-712-770-8055, Conference Code: 983459


Monthly Meetings | Recordings (3/20 Recording Uploaded)
Emotional Support Group Meetings

General News

California prisons careening closer to cliff

For a minute there, it looked like California’s prisons were on the verge of positive reforms. But the current situation in the state’s massive prison system — one of the largest in the world — is far from encouraging. It’s been a kaleidoscope of bad news lately.  Full Article

Tagged

Related Posts...

General Comments April 2021

April 1, 2021

MT: Federal judge to rule on sex offender registration for ‘gay sex’ convictions

March 30, 2021

How you can search for bills and advocacy groups in your state

March 28, 2021

General Comments March 2021

March 3, 2021

The Sex Offender Law That Could’ve Broken the Government

February 26, 2021

NY: Rensselaer County proposes animal abuser registry

February 23, 2021
We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...  
  • Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  • Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  • Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  • Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  • Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  • We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  • We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address.
  • Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  • Please do not post in all Caps.
  • If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links.
  • We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  • We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  • Please choose a user name that does not contain links to other web sites
  • Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 
2 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Wow, this is a very disturbing article. I spent a bit of time secondary to this offense 18-19 years ago. Prior to that, I had never had any legal issues and none since then as well. To say the least, I’m very educated (MBA) and open minded. I was honestly shocked and rather disturbed by some of the things I saw in LA County Jail. I saw people pushed, harassed, talked to disturbingly and a variety of other things from the Sheriffs Deputies. I can only imagine how those facing life or doing life in prison must feel? Furthermore, I… Read more »

0
0
Reply

The problem is private, for profit prisons and their lobbying for tougher sentencing guidelines. They have profits and shareholders to take care of. The public interest…not so much.

0
0
2
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x
.