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The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced this month by a bi-partisan group of US Senators that includes Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Patrick Leahy...
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A nationally recognized criminal justice reformer is confident North Carolina eventually will overturn a state law allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to be charged as adults, but acknowledges political resistance to the proposal remains.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If one is looking for clues regarding what universities think a college education should be about, one obvious place to look is their freshman summer reading programs
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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More than 2,500 patients across the state may be diverted each year from hospital emergency departments to behavioral health crisis centers with help from $5,000 grants awarded to each of 11 counties
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Director Courtney Cantrell, PhD, of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, announced that four Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCO) were selected to pilot Critica
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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More than 450 people attended a community celebration to kick-off the Gaston County Critical Time Intervention (CTI) program. CTI is part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Crisis Solutions Initiative which focuses on identifying and implementing the best known...
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory will be appearing on CBS News Sunday Morning on May 24, 2015 to discuss North Carolina's Veterans Treatment Courts.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 1:52 am
By: Chris Downey
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Students and residents representing three of East Carolina University's health sciences programs recently participated in the university's first interprofessional virtual patient case.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 12:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Earlier this month the Department of Justice finally released a report summarizing its investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. Some have denounced the report as little more than irresponsible race baiting. Others have praised it as a much needed expose of a rogue agency...
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent murder of three students in Chapel Hill handed the drive-bys exactly what they were looking for.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 12:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Democrats have, for decades, made mincemeat out of GOP nominees simply because they disagreed with them.
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 4:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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US Attorney General Eric Holder has been subjected to a good deal of criticism during his time in office, but even many of his fiercest critics have joined the chorus of praise for an order he signed last week entitled "Prohibition on Certain Federal Adoptions of Seizures by State and Local Law...
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News of the senseless, tragic ambush murders of two NYPD officers is reverberating across the country.
Published: Friday, December 26th, 2014 @ 10:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 @ 7:14 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Congrats, drive-bys. You demagogued a local crime story for months and months. You did all you could to inflame emotions.
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Giving a prisoner a cell phone is now a felony under legislation signed into law today by Governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 11:52 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and their cameras
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 12:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Think you know the answer to this question? I thought they represented the business interests of the City of Washington and the surrounding community with an occasional foray into Beaufort County business interests.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:00 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 12:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Court Will Support Veterans under Judicial Monitoring by Offering Resources for Treatment, Education and Vocational Programs and Community Resources.
Published: Saturday, November 9th, 2013 @ 1:19 am
By: David Winstead
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One recent Tuesday was Constitution Day - September 17. It marks the day that the Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 concluded and the final draft of Constitution was signed by the delegates who attended.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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One question confronting North Carolina's criminal justice system more and more is: What should we do for a 16-or-17-year-old who genuinely makes a mistake, learned a lesson and most likely will never make that mistake again?
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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To know your Constitution - questions for Constitution Day (to learn about the Constitution).
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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HB 725 Young Offenders Rehabilitation Act - better known as the "Raise the Age" bill stalled in the Long Session this year.
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 4:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is likely to see millions of dollars in net annual benefits over time, if lawmakers join almost every other state in making the juvenile justice system...
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 5:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of only two states which automatically send all 16 and 17 year-olds to the adult justice system, and does not allow juveniles to petition for juvenile court jurisdiction.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 7:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following direct appointments today
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 11:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let's say you're an ordinary citizen and you trespass on someone's property. You come back the next day anyway.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 9:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today $19 million in federal crime grants awarded to state and local agencies for public safety needs.
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2013 @ 11:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory made the following announcements today
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2013 @ 9:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This story is a tangled mess that recently made national news. But it belongs to a large genre, familiar to the first author from his years as dean of Harvard College.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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