Taxpayers bear heavy bill for incarcerating prisoners

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The fiscal pinch gets felt in locales like Buchanan County, with its jail's 224-bed capacity, and the state of Missouri, where 20 adult institutions house 31,000 prisoners on any given day. Missouri lawmakers … Maryville Treatment Center, with a …
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Homeland Security advisor supports convicted terrorist fundraiser

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Elibiary, who in his position on the council has regular access to classified information, also said the United States insults Muslim dignity and compared the Muslim Brotherhood to American evangelicals. Elibiary confirmed to journalist Ryan Mauro of …
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The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence

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They also reveal new aspects of a variety of problems, including (1) the appalling (though, from state to state, dramatically uneven) prevalence of sexual misconduct by staff members in juvenile detention facilities; (2) the enormous and …
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When More Medicine Isn't Always Better: Penn Study Reveals High Costs of …

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In the analysis of patients drawn from the national Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database, they found that only 3 percent of patients studied received just single-fraction treatment, and nearly half the patients had more …
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