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		<title>7th Grader Suspended For Touching Pill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/451</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[zero tolerance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take for school administrators to use some common sense? A policy, zero tolerance or any other, is a guideline. Every situation is different, and school officials need to be able to approach each situation individually, and make an appropriate decision, based on the relevant facts.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A right is defined as something that all people deserve, simply because they are human beings. This bill of rights was created by young women who are or have been incarcerated in Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. These are rights that all young women deserve, regardless of their involvement with the juvenile justice system.]]></description>
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		<title>If tax-paying part-time residents shouldn’t be counted outside their home districts, neither should incarcerated people.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gerrymandering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent editorial, “In new Census, home is where the vote should be,” the Times Herald-Record (Orange County, NY), examines the issue of prison-based gerrymandering in the larger context of voting and election law in New York State.
If it is not right to let a two-month bungalow colony resident vote in the Town of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March MT legislative newsletter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/437</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March issue of the Montana Legislative Branch Newsletter is available at: www.leg.mt.gov under the heading &#8216;What&#8217;s New&#8217;. If you you have any questions or comments about the newsletter contact Jeff Martin at jmartin@mt.gov or Gayle Shirley at gshirley@mt.gov.
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		<title>Walking Home&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/433</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside|Outside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hannan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montana State Prison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Montana State Prison is divided into two parts: the high security side and the low security side. A fence topped with separatess the two classes of prisoners. There is no mixing of the populations. Convicted of a violent crime, I began my sentence on the high-side...

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		<title>Reporting MSP/DOC Staff Misconduct&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/432</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dept. of Corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grievance procedures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MDOC Policy 1.3.12]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most, that sense of powerlessness evolves from our own ignorance of the laws that are there to
protect us. Most of us ﬁnd ourselves unaware, or uninformed, of the provisions of policy and law that
offer a proper and just course of action to take in presenting our grievances to respective agency
authorities and the courts. There are also some of us who see our systems failures, and do
absolutely nothing to help address the problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Law and Justice Interim Committee meeting Feb. 8th &amp; 9th in Helena&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/424</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dept. of Corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike McGrath]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SJR 29]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <strong>Law and Justice Interim Committee</strong> will be meeting at 8:00 a.m. in Room 137 of the Capitol Building on Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9.]]></description>
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		<title>February Montana Legislative Branch newsletter available&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/423</link>
		<comments>http://mtconnections.org/archives/423#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February issue of the Montana Legislative Branch newsletter is available on the legislative branch homepage at  <a href=" www.leg.mt.gov" target="_parent">www.leg.mt.gov</a> under "What's New".]]></description>
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		<title>First National Summit on &#8220;Justice Reinvestment&#8221; Held on Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/421</link>
		<comments>http://mtconnections.org/archives/421#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice reinvestment act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recidivism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A bipartisan group of congressional and state leaders and experts on criminal justice policy came together yesterday to examine how states are changing their crime and corrections policies through “justice reinvestment”—an approach that uses data-driven, fiscally responsible policies and practices to increase public safety and reduce recidivism and corrections spending.]]></description>
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		<title>Please take our MTCJRN 2010 priorites survey&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mtconnections.org/archives/416</link>
		<comments>http://mtconnections.org/archives/416#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTCJRN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We look forward to your input and help in creating “positives changes” and a more efficient criminal justice system for Montana. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RR3WKX8]]></description>
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