This government disaster is not costing what the all knowing, all seeing, Beaufort County master manipulators thought.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:20 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The bill isn’t soft on crime, but it does address critical concerns about incarcerated, drug-addicted individuals
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2019 @ 9:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This Friday, April 26th, marks two years since Correction Officer Meggan Callahan was violently killed by an inmate.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 3:52 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The 2019-20 General Assembly session is well under way. Bills are being filed and committees are meeting, but the attention will soon fall on the biennial budget, which the governor introduced this week and included new and expanded spending, including a 9.1 percent raise for teachers
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was also thrilled to announce earlier today that I am nominating, as Matt said, William Barr to take the helm as our new Attorney General.
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 3:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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And these are two friends of mine. And Kanye has been a friend of mine for a long time. And Jim is - Jim came out of nowhere, and he said, "I like what the President is doing." A long time ago we met. Right? And I just appreciated it very much.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2018 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Hurricane Florence approaches North Carolina, shelters statewide are opening to take in people displaced by evacuations
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 9:31 am
By: Governor's Office
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Well, thank you very much, everybody, for being here in Bedminster. We've had a lot of work. We've done a lot of work.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2018 @ 11:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, thank you very much. It's my great honor to be here today with some of the leading pastors and faith leaders from across our nation. These are great people, most of whom I know.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the mid-1990's, Matthew Charles was sentenced to 35 years in prison for selling crack. He served 21 years; he was, by all accounts, an exemplary inmate during that stretch
Published: Wednesday, May 30th, 2018 @ 11:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Michael Kerr, starving, incoherent, and dehydrated, was loaded into a van March 12, 2014, at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville. The 53-year-old inmate was bound for a hospital at Central Prison in Raleigh
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 9:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine a man serving a 20-year prison sentence. He's told when to eat and what to wear, and he lacks the option of opening a door. He has little to no independence or free will
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While 2017 was a good and productive year for many public and private institutions in North Carolina, it was a tragic year for our prison system
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 12:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who says Republicans and Democrats can't do good things together?
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2017 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Thom Tillis took part in led a bipartisan letter expressing concern to leaders in the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons over the elimination of key programming in the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) revised Statement of Work
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 9:36 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined a bipartisan group of senators to call on Acting Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Thomas Kane and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to review and explain their plans to follow recommendations from the Department of Justice
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 4:21 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Earlier this year, the commission delivered a report to the General Assembly urging, among other reforms, legislation raising the default age teenagers charged with nonviolent offenses would be tried in adult courts from 16 to 18 years old
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A legislative effort to "raise the age" for some juvenile offenders has instead raised concerns about costs
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2017 @ 4:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper has named Willis “Bill” Fowler to serve as chairman of the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2017 @ 3:29 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today named Sheriff Graham H. Atkinson of Surry County to serve on the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 8:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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During his first two years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has been a leading advocate for bipartisan criminal justice reform, a continuation of his successful efforts to implement reforms at the state level during his tenure as North Carolina House Speaker
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Hillary Clinton claims to admire Margaret Sanger, her tenacity, her courage, and her vision. Unfortunately, few people truly understand Sanger's vision. Even less know it's being implemented even today.
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2016 @ 11:00 pm
By: Pat Riot
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Paul Craig Roberts takes a look at the document that holds the states in a Union and questions whether the legal bonds still exist.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 9:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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For years now, legislators, policy analysts, medical providers, and lobbyists for various interest groups have been arguing about North Carolina's Medicaid program. Whether you find this argument interesting, confusing, or boring, I have some news for you: it's far from over.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone is talking about the $22 billion+ House Budget and what will happen to the spending plan now that it has crossed chambers and is in the hands of the Senate. Senate leaders will be meeting all this week to start their preparations before it is debated in sub-committees. We should expect a...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blinkin' Chris and Angry Rob and their comedy web site are calling for the end of solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons
Published: Saturday, April 11th, 2015 @ 10:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Earlier last year you began acting on a proposal to fund a new jail at the Washington Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Warren Smith
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There are many questions that are asked in legislative meetings and many times the staff notes that they will have to follow up with those questions at a later meeting.
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While there are questions lingering about criminal justice matters that are being fought for all over the country there is a question that still lingers...
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 12:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The District Attorney, Seth Edwards, wrote an editorial responding to criticisms I made about the failure of his office to try criminal cases promptly after arrests have been made.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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How do you know 'judicial activism' when you see it? Black's Law Dictionary defines judicial activism as a "philosophy of judicial decision-making whereby judges allow their personal views about public policy, among other factors, to guide their decisions."
Published: Thursday, June 16th, 2011 @ 9:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Former Senator Edwards has been indicted on six felony counts that he violated campaign finance laws in a desperate bid to protect both his White House hopes and his image as a devoted family man.
Published: Saturday, June 4th, 2011 @ 5:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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