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Atlanta Progressive News
April 13, 2016
nathan deal (APN) ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal made criminal justice reform one of the priorities of his administration. While he has been problematic on medical cannabis issues, Gov. Deal has pushed forward of several criminal justice reform measures that came out of the Georgia Council on CriminalÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
February 11, 2016
chamblee (APN) CHAMBLEE — Tonight, Thursday, February 11, 2016, during a public hearing called for 6:30 p.m., the City of Chamblee City Council will be hearing public testimony on a resolution to express their support for a referendum on whether to annex a northern section of DeKalb County that wasÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
January 13, 2016
In Georgia, there are eighty prisons, 22 youth detention facilities, five immigrant detention facilities, and 193 jails, plus probation centers. ... the State of Georgia for having one in every thirteen people under correctional supervision, which means they are in jail, detention, prison, probation, or parole. That isÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
September 1, 2015
Georgia has over half a million people on probation or parole, by far the most in the nation, and the fifth highest incarceration rate among the fifty states and the District of Columbia. According to Mapping Police Violence, at least 210 Black people nationally have been killed by police so far in 2015, and thisÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
June 23, 2015
Project South and the Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger–two organizations with offices on Gammon–say the closure has interfered with their work .... to school” to “Student transported to detention”); bulleted lists detailing APD's and APS's approach to truancy; and relevant Georgia and City of AtlantaÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
June 8, 2015
Georgia is the number one state in the U.S. with people under correctional control, which includes prison, jail, probation, and parole. Georgia has the fourth highest ... Georgia's programs are instead based on unrealistic expectations that addicts will never relapse. So, when most addicts eventually relapse,ÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
May 7, 2015
As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia recently settled a similar lawsuit involving debtors prisons in DeKalb ... Georgia has the highest number of people under correctional control in the country which includes prison, jail, parole, and probation.
Atlanta Progressive News
February 27, 2015
“The State of Georgia spends more than one billion dollars annually on costs for corrections, which includes probation, parole, and incarcerating people in prisons. It's a very high proportion of our budget that we spend keeping people in the criminal justice system,” Marissa McCall Dodson, attorney andÃÂ ...
CT Newsjunkie
October 24, 2014
Also on the panel were Bishop Garland Hunt, and the Rev. Dean Nelson, co-founder of the Frederick Douglass Foundation. The panel did address the “misuse” of weapons. That comes from lawlessness, and broken families, said Hunt, who was on Georgia's parole board and also runs a prison ministry.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
November 7, 2011
UPDATE: Gale Buckner Named New Georgia Juvenile Justice Commissioner ... Buckner was a long-time agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. ... Howell's predecessor, Garland Hunt, was formerly chairman of the Board.
Atlanta Progressive News
April 13, 2016
Deal has pushed forward of several criminal justice reform measures that came out of the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform.
Atlanta Progressive News
February 11, 2016
Chamblee would need to hire many more officers, plus parole cars, and equipment to provide the same police protection to 35,000 additional ...
Atlanta Progressive News
January 13, 2016
Panel members exposed the State of Georgia for having one in every ... which means they are in jail, detention, prison, probation, or parole.
Atlanta Progressive News
September 1, 2015
Georgia has over half a million people on probation or parole, by far the most in the nation, and the fifth highest incarceration rate among the ...
Atlanta Progressive News
June 8, 2015
seattle fact finding trip (APN) ATLANTA — From April 14 to 16, 2015, Atlanta activists and elected officials were in Seattle, Washington, learning ...
Atlanta Progressive News
May 7, 2015
Georgia has the highest number of people under correctional control in the country which includes prison, jail, parole, and probation.
Atlanta Progressive News
February 27, 2015
“The State of Georgia spends more than one billion dollars annually on costs for corrections, which includes probation, parole, and ...
CT Newsjunkie
October 24, 2014
Dean Nelson, Wayne Dupree, and Garland Hunt. ... families, said Hunt, who was on Georgia's parole board and also runs a prison ministry.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
November 7, 2011
UPDATE: Gale Buckner Named New Georgia Juvenile Justice Commissioner ... currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. ... Howell's predecessor, Garland Hunt, was formerly chairman of the Board.
Online Athens
May 15, 2009
In addition, the Georgia Center for the Book listed “Freedom” as one of the ... of State Karen Handel and Parole Board member Garland Hunt.
Atlanta Progressive News
April 13, 2016
Deal has pushed forward of several criminal justice reform measures that came out of the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform.
Atlanta Progressive News
February 11, 2016
Chamblee would need to hire many more officers, plus parole cars, and equipment to provide the same police protection to 35,000 additionalÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
January 13, 2016
Panel members exposed the State of Georgia for having one in every ... which means they are in jail, detention, prison, probation, or parole.
Atlanta Progressive News
September 1, 2015
Georgia has over half a million people on probation or parole, by far the most in the nation, and the fifth highest incarceration rate among theÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
June 8, 2015
seattle fact finding trip (APN) ATLANTA — From April 14 to 16, 2015, Atlanta activists and elected officials were in Seattle, Washington, learningÃÂ ...
Atlanta Progressive News
May 7, 2015
Georgia has the highest number of people under correctional control in the country which includes prison, jail, parole, and probation.
Atlanta Progressive News
February 27, 2015
“The State of Georgia spends more than one billion dollars annually on costs for corrections, which includes probation, parole, andÃÂ ...
CT Newsjunkie
October 24, 2014
Dean Nelson, Wayne Dupree, and Garland Hunt. ... families, said Hunt, who was on Georgia's parole board and also runs a prison ministry.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
November 7, 2011
Buckner was a long-time agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ... as it comes near the end of Gale Buckner's tenure on Pardons and Paroles. ... Howell's predecessor, Garland Hunt, was formerly chairman of the Board.
Online Athens
May 15, 2009
In addition, the Georgia Center for the Book listed “Freedom” as one of the ... of State Karen Handel and Parole Board member Garland Hunt.
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