A Letter From Ray Jasper, Who Is About to Be Executed

A Letter From Ray Jasper, Who Is About to Be Executed
They said they were tired of being treated like slaves. … He predicted that over a million people would be locked up by the year 2000. … That makes a person eligible for the death penalty The problem is, you're not getting the death penalty for …
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Program allows female inmates to raise children behind bars
Inmates who are accepted in the program, however, are not treated differently. Aside from living … ABC's “Nightline” followed inmate Jacqueline McDougall, who is raising her son Max at the facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. McDougall was convicted for …
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Is it time for an ounce of cure?
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Families with sick children have been flocking to Colorado, where medical marijuana use has been legal since 2000 and recreational marijuana use became legal for adults as of Jan. 1. Some parents say a … Opponents of medical …
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France's 'invisible disaster': how heroin devastated the banlieues in the 1980s
As very few of us would treat them, they came in from all over the eastern suburbs. We did what we could, making it up as we went along, trying unauthorised replacement substances," Ménard says. Drug addicts in Paris in 1996 Heroin proved deadly in the …
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Psychiatry and Psychology – Part 4: Addiction Center — Dr. Daniel Hall-Flavin, Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry in Rochester, Minn., provides a brief introduction to the Addiction Center.