Study: County Approaches Differ on Prison Reforms

Study: County approaches differ on prison reforms
In passing the law, state lawmakers urged county officials to increase rehabilitation and treatment programs that could keep more criminals out of prisons and jails, although the local governments were given broad discretion in spending the grants. The …
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This is Democracy Live's live coverage of the European Parliament plenary
There has been a long-running dispute over the different treatment of sugar beet and sugar cane. The EU's quota system … Mr Šef?ovi? says the work programme is the result of "intense dialogue" following Jose Manuel Barroso's State of the Union …
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Doctors say Venezuela's health care in collapse
For example, dialysis treatment was set at 200 bolivars ($ 30 at the official exchange rate and less than $ 4 on the black market) for a procedure that costs 5,000 bolivars to administer. “The health care crisis is an economic crisis. It is not a medical …
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