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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf is issuing an executive order Friday to authorize the early release of up to 1,800 inmates from Pennsylvania state prisons in an effort to minimize the spread of the new coronavirus. The governor’s office said that releases to halfway houses or home confinement could start as early as Tuesday. The plan is similar to what other states and some Pennsylvania counties have undertaken. It allows the release of inmates serving time for nonviolent offenses who are within nine months of scheduled release, or within 12 months for those considered at heightened risk from...

The abortion industry loves to promote their doctors as champions of women. However, their portrayal of these “champions of choice” is quite different from reality. And no one knows this better than the abortion industry itself. At a National Abortion Federation seminar in 1993, Australian abortionist David Grundman said: “…abortion is still a very fringe-type practice. There aren’t a lot of people who want to get into abortion provision. And the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig deep enough, you’ll find a death or two...

Nearly 3 percent of illegal immigrants in Arizona end up in state prison or jail during the course of a year — four times the rate of U.S. citizens and legal residents, according to a study that uses federal reimbursements for prisons and jails to try to calculate one of the most important yet elusive statistics in the immigration debate. In New Jersey, illegal immigrants are incarcerated five times more often, and rates on the West Coast are triple that of legal residents and citizens, according to the study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR based its calculations...

Clinton Foundation didn’t report another $26.4 million in speaking fees The Clinton Foundation confirmed Thursday that it received as much as $26.4 million in previously unreported payments from foreign governments and corporations for speeches given by the Clintons. It’s the latest in a string of admissions from the foundation that it didn’t always abide by a 2008 ethics agreement to disclose its funding sources publicly. That agreement, penned as Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, is certain to continue the headache that the foundation’s work and donors have become for Clinton as she makes another run at the White House....

CONVICTED criminals are being employed as telemarketers to cold-call people as part of a radical new prison employment program. But those called will have no idea they are talking to an inmate and the State Government will not say which organisations are using the convicts as part of a confidentiality deal. The program is designed to prepare women prisoners from Windsor's low and medium-security Dillwynia Correctional Centre for life on the outside, training them for work and stopping them from reoffending. However it is also being used as a low-cost way for companies to get cheap telemarketing work and for...

Relatives of Cape May County Jail inmates say a song the was sung by police recruits was not music to their ears. More than 50 recruits and their trainers jogged in formation past the jail last week singing: "Jailbirds, jailbirds, look and see. You're locked up and we're free.'' Relatives, who were in the jail parking lot, say they were shocked. Jail officials don't believe any inmates heard the chant. Freeholder Bob Sheets tells The Press of Atlantic City the simple thing would be to find another song or stop singing. Sheets spoke to the county's public safety training center's...

Go to http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/130519/index.php and download the interview. One of Code PINK's leaders, Jodie Evans, complains about how long it took to process all the people arrested with Cindy Sheehan at the White House. Then she admits that she TOOK OFF when she was released at midnight rather than observe "Jail Solidarity" with the people the march leaders asked to participate. In the extremist world of far-left protest there are sacraments and rituals. Jail Solidarity is High Mass for them and Jodie disrespected all those who showed support when getting arrested, but she didn't support them. She took off for her...

Black Panthers in Morristown? Stay tuned 06/05/2003 MORRISTOWN - The 1960s may have ended more than 30 years ago, but a distant name from that age - the Black Panthers - could be rejuvenated in Morristown. Abbett Avenue resident William Riley, claiming to be a member of the New Black Panther Party, came to last Tuesday's Town Council meeting to tell council members young people feel harassed by police when they walk around Morristown, notably in the predominantly black and Latino Second Ward. He warned council that police misconduct would be met with "maximum physical retaliation." Riley, 31, told the...

Jailed Traficant Gets 15 Percent Wednesday November 6, 2002 4:30 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Former Ohio Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.'s fight to take back his House seat came up short Tuesday - but he did manage to attract more than 27,000 votes in a campaign from his Pennsylvania prison cell. Traficant, who was expelled from the House in July and is serving eight years in federal prison on bribery and racketeering convictions, was running as an independent from behind bars. He finished third in Tuesday's voting, grabbing 15 percent of the vote. Democrat Tim Ryan won. ``The biggest...