What role for parole? Moves afoot to abolish it but critics warn of overcrowding

Article Abstract:

Abolishing early parole caught on with the public dismayed by violent crimes committed by paroled criminals and the list of states abolishing early parole has grown to more than a dozen since 1984. However, New York governor George Pataki's plan to keep criminals imprisoned for their full terms may be in danger as critics question whether abolishing parole may be the best remedy for a state plagued by prison overcrowding. Critics claim that, whether parole exists or not, inmates end up being released early from overcrowded prisons .

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Nonresidential construction, not elsewhere classified, Prisons, Imprisonment, Parole, Prison construction

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One big headache; the collapse of a major medical malpractice insurer has left many feeling sick, and there is no easy cure

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The forced liquidation of PIE Mutual Insurance Co, a major medical malpractice insurer when an investigation by the Ohio department of insurance revealed the company had doctored its accounting books to hide a debt of over $275 mil was of particular concern to the PIE-insured doctors facing legal claims and gave others the unsettling knowledge that their PIE insurance policies were worthless. Problems such as the company's thin capitalization should have warned of what was to come.

Ohio, Finance, Bankruptcy reorganizations, Bankruptcy reorganization, Medical malpractice insurance, P.I.E. Mutual Insurance Co.

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Shredding the truth

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The article discusses the extremes to which some criminal defense lawyers carry the defense of their client, using the exception to ABA Model Rule 13.1 allowing these lawyers to make the prosecution prove its allegations even if theree is no "no nonfrivolous basis for defense" toput forward arguments they know to be frivolous or outright lies. Examples from various high-profile cases are given.

United States, Methods, Defense (Criminal procedure)

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