Alaska needs to repeal Senate Bill 91. I say this as a former supporter of the bill. I even co-sponsored it. I fully believed in the bill. I don’t believe in it anymore.
Senate Bill 91 has failed — and ever since its passage I have watched my neighbors and fellow Alaskans suffer as crime has increased, seemingly without end. We need to start over.
On 10/6/17, an Anchorage jury convicted Lammar Burney and Jamal Townsend of first degree murder in connection with the shooting of 15 year old Precious Alex in Mountain View in 2014. Burney, 32, and Townsend, 28, were also convicted of second degree assault for injuring a second person during the shooting and of second degree weapons misconduct. Townsend was convicted of an additional count of first degree weapons misconduct for a drive by shooting that took place ten days before the murder.
Is this for all prisoners no matter how atrocious, monstrous their crime(s)?
A similar project is being tested for inmates in segregation at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, but it includes a large screen TV showing nature videos in a room painted green.Spring Creek Inmates have painted murals in other parts of the prison as well, making some areas look like living rooms or storefronts. The intake area for seg has a large painting of a bird and flower that helps calm people down. The porches, the paintings, and the mentors are all part of Lapinskas’ larger mission for Spring Creek: to imbue the institution with more humanity and try to help the inmates, not just punish them.
data, open government, Travis Khachatoorian
Source: What Do I Know?: Stretching Credulity – Anchorage Police Need 40 Hours To Provide Data To Reporter
Heather Shade and Sean Copeland Distill It Down
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Alex DeMarban: SEC targets North Slope Borough over false statements during bond sales
The settlement does not provide a fine, and there is no admission of wrongdoing by the borough. The settlement calls for the borough to take remedial steps to prevent the problem in future bond sales, a step that borough officials say has already occurred.
Andrew Reid & Wassillie Gregory Dancing with their devils
Lisa Demer: Former Bethel cop must serve time for violent 2014 arrest caught on video
Gregory already received a $175,000 civil settlement from the city of Bethel. A harassment conviction against him from the incident was dismissed last year.
The money hasn’t really helped, his sister said. Mainly, she said, he drinks it away.
Where are the Black Lives Matter Supporters?
I hope he gets exactly, and repeatedly, without any drugs what he did to his victims.
Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper gets 18 years for drugging, raping approximately 16 women
Sharper or his friend Brandon Licciardi, a former sheriff’s deputy in neighboring St. Bernard Parish, put anti-anxiety drugs or sedatives into women’s drinks so they could rape them, according to a 15-page statement signed as part of Sharper’s plea agreement.
Milazzo has scheduled sentencing Oct. 13 for Licciardi and a second New Orleans codefendant, Erik Nunez.
Justice Department Announces It Will Begin Phasing Out Private Prisons In the United States
Justice Department Memo announcing announcing the end of its use of private prisons
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed officials in a memo Thursday to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”
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