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"Get tough on crime" was the mantra for many lawmakers nationwide in the past 25 years. And policy-makers in Louisiana took it to heart – perhaps more so than anywhere else.
Without question, Louisiana leads the country in the percentage of its residents imprisoned, with a rate twice as high as the national average. In fact, the state's figures vie for worst in the world, inviting comparisons to countries such as North Korea.
An unusual new coalition — leftist groups, prominent business leaders, a right-wing think tank and the American Civil Liberties Union — is trying to end this distinction. The coalition will get its first crack at reducing Louisiana's incarceration rate during the three-month legislative session that began Monday.
The coalition is pushing measures that would give judges leeway to impose lighter sentences for people convicted of nonviolent crimes such as marijuana possession, make more inmates eligible for parole, and move sick, elderly inmates from prisons to nursing homes.
"There's a growing recognition from many different sectors of the state that Louisiana's criminal justice policies are excessively expensive and are not as effective as they could be," said Dana Kaplan, executive director of the New Orleans-based Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana.
Groups such as Kaplan's have argued for years that Louisiana's "lock 'em up" approach has discriminated against the poor and African-Americans, who disproportionately fill the state's prisons. And, they say, it has not made the state demonstrably safer.
Now influential conservatives and business leaders have joined the cause.
"I have taken the side of law enforcement: just put the bad guys behind bars. I have tended to stress keeping the streets safe," said Kevin Kane, president of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, a small, Libertarian-minded think tank in New Orleans."I still think those things. But I hadn't fully educated myself on who is really behind bars.
There are a lot of people behind bars who did not engage in violent crime. There are a lot of people behind bars who don't pose a threat to society."
Marjorie Esman, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, called the coalition "strange bedfellows."
The Louisiana Sentencing Commission, a 22-member board from the legal profession and judiciary that advises the governor, is supporting a package of 16 bills that includes some of the same measures supported by the coalition. Judge Fredericka Wicker of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal played a lead role in getting legislators to sponsor the measures.
Another bipartisan group that just formed — Louisianians for Responsible Reform — is working to lessen sentences for marijuana users.
Convincing lawmakers to go easier on nonviolent criminals won't be easy. Over the past 25 years, state legislators passed laws lengthening sentences for many crimes, creating long mandatory sentences for many others and making it harder for inmates to win parole.
Bills supported by the Sentencing Commission:
HB 790 by state Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, would allow parishes to permit people who have been arrested for certain offenses to be released on a cash deposit in lieu of bond
HB 680 by Rep. Jackson would raise the bar for charging certain thefts as felonies
SB 277 by state Sen. Jonathan Perry, R-Kaplan, would clarify the state's drunk driving law.
SB 532 by state Sen. Ellery Guillory, R-Opelousas, would create courts to adjudicate cases involving veterans involving drugs and alcohol as is done in drug court
SB 398 by state Sen. Fred Mills Jr., R-New Iberia, would permit more drug felons to participate in drug court programs.
SB 256 by Sen. Mills would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and benefit restrictions for certain drug convictions.
SB 275 by Sen. Mills would eliminate the crime of drug traffic loitering, which the state Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional.
SB 257 by Sen. Mills would create a misdemeanor charge for first time offenders who purchase or transport supplies for the operation of a clandestine drug lab.
HB 16 by state Rep. Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, would authorize the 15th Judicial District Court (Lafayette) to establish a special court to rehabilitate certain incarcerated inmates to re-enter civil society.
HB 732 by Rep. Jackson would authorize the waiver of minimum mandatory sentences for certain crimes of violence.
HB 745 by state Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, would allow judges to waive minimum mandatory sentences in certain instances.
SB 383 by state Sen. Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, would expand parole eligibility for certain non-violent crimes.
HB 731 by Rep. Jackson would create a procedure for designating certain crimes in the court minutes as a crime of violence.
SB 472 by Sen. Mills would raise the standards for the Parole Committee.
HB 210 by state Rep. Patrick Jefferson, D-Homer, would expand eligibility for medical parole.
SB 240 by state Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, would require state Supreme Court and appeals court clerks of court to transmit rulings to local clerks of court and the Department of Corrections
"No legislators ever take any heat for putting or keeping someone in jail for a long time," said state Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner. "As long as you can live with the fiscal consequences, it's fine."
But that tally is growing. A 2013 study reported that the state spends twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars as 20 years ago, when Louisiana had half as many inmates. There are now 39,299 inmates in custody, down from last year's peak of 40,170, reports the Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
In the current fiscal year, Louisiana will spend $648 million to house, feed, transport, to provide parole and probation supervision and to provide health care for its inmates, according to the Department of Public Safety & Corrections. That's money the state can't spend on fixing roads, hiring more teachers or new college classes.
These figures represent the number of convicted criminals serving time on state felony convictions, but they don't include inmates in local jails awaiting trial, inmates sentenced to parish time in local jails or federal prisoners housed in Louisiana.
Three factors are bringing the left and the right together in Louisiana to reduce the number of people in prison.
One factor was Cindy Chang's eight-part series published by The Times-Picayune in May 2012, called "Louisiana Incarcerated."
"In Louisiana, a two-time car burglar can get 24 years without parole," Chang wrote. "A trio of drug convictions can be enough to land you at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for the rest of your life."
Chang reported that Louisiana's laws give sheriffs – especially in rural areas – an economic incentive to maintain the status quo because of the payments they receive from the state to house convicts. About half of Louisiana's 39,300 inmates are in parish jails – the highest rate in the nation.
"If the inmate count dips, sheriffs bleed money," Chang wrote. "Their constituents lose jobs. The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars."
The series prompted Pres Kabacoff, a New Orleans developer and civic leader, to write a letter to the editor decrying Louisiana's punitive approach.
Afterward, Kabacoff said in a recent interview, "I began thinking that it [the letter] was not enough." He has become involved with Smart on Crime, which is part of the coalition seeking to reduce the incarceration rate.
Smart on Crime has raised $150,000 to hire a Baton Rouge-based lobbyist and to bring outside experts to Louisiana to buttress concerns that pushing for change will make lawmakers vulnerable to accusations of being soft on crime. Blueprint Louisiana, a Baton Rouge-based group of business leaders, also supports Smart on Crime.
Looking to Texas as an example
Another factor has been a desire to emulate Texas. Lawmakers there in 2007 rejected plans to build three more prisons. Instead, they boosted spending for drug and alcohol addiction treatment, stepped up efforts to keep nonviolent offenders out of prison and increased job training for inmates scheduled for release. The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative group, has led the way.
"When you think of tough law and a no-nonsense place, you think of Texas," said New Orleans businessman Jay Lapeyre. "They're not soft on crime. So there must be some logic behind it."
Lapeyre backs the effort, as does Gregory Rusovich, another New Orleans businessman and civic leader.
Rusovich said inmates need drug treatment, job training and parole and probation programs.
"If what we do is change the law without giving people a place to go to for the assistance they need, it won't achieve the result we want," he said.
Advocates in Louisiana for reduced sentences have noted that Georgia and several other states with Republican governors have followed Texas' example.
"We are becoming an outlier, even among conservative states," Kane said.
Right-wing leaders nationwide join effort
A third factor behind the push in Louisiana has been the creation of "Right on Crime," a national organization backed by prominent conservatives. The group believes that lessening sentences for nonviolent offenders, such as those caught with drugs, and spending more on rehabilitation programs can not only save taxpayer money but also make the streets safer.
The group includes anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
"While the growth of incarceration took many dangerous offenders off the streets," the group says on its website, "research suggested that it reached a point of diminishing returns, as recidivism rates increased and more than one million nonviolent offenders filled the nation's prisons."
Providing impetus for the push: crime rates have been dropping nationally.
Gov. Bobby Jindal, of course, will play a critical role in what happens this session. The governor has won plaudits from advocates for sentencing changes by reinstituting the Louisiana Sentencing Commission in 2008 and supporting several modest sentencing reductions.
The governor's office emailed a statement to The Lens which said that Jindal supports "passing common sense sentencing reforms that, when appropriate, lessen sentences for non-violent drug use offenders while focusing on rehabilitation for offenders. We're committed to reducing incarceration rates and rehabilitating inmates so they do not return to jail."
Not everyone is willing to lighten sentences
But many conservatives, it appears, remain skeptical.
State Sen. Bob Kostelka, R-Monroe, represents the hard-line stance on criminal punishment. His views are particularly important because he is chairman of the Senate committee that handles sentencing legislation.
Kostelka, who was a district attorney for eight years and a judge for 20, said he's not concerned by Louisiana's high incarceration rate.
"If you do the crime, you do the time. Crime comes from poverty and kids without parents," Kostelka said, adding that those problems needed to be solved first. "We're not putting innocent people in jail. We're not incarcerating people unless they've been convicted and are guilty."
As for the changes in Texas and Georgia, "I am not moved by what is happening elsewhere," Kostelka said.
He remains dead-set against House Bill 14, sponsored by state Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans. The bill would reduce sentences for second and third convictions of marijuana possession. Jindal supports the measure, said press secretary Shannon Bates by email.
Badon said the measure would save the state about $4 million a year.
"Republicans understand there are better ways to spend tax dollars," he said.
"It would be a smart financial decision for the state" because it would transfer costs to the federal government.
— State Rep. Joe Lopinto, R-Metairie, chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee
In February, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission endorsed the bill. Pete Adams, the executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, said his group will not fight the measure.
State Rep. Joe Lopinto, R-Metairie, is chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee. He takes a more moderate view than does Kostelka, having sponsored two of the three laws that reduced some sentences and gave the parole board discretion to impose lesser penalties rather than send parolees to prison.
Lopinto does not oppose Badon's bill but said it would affect too few inmates — no more than 100, he estimates — to make much of a difference.
Another measure, Senate Bill 323, by State Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, and state Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, would go further by downgrading the second and third convictions of marijuana possession to misdemeanors.
Adams said the district attorneys are willing to support some changes but draw the line at making marijuana possession a misdemeanor or reducing sentences for violent offenders. He noted that many released convicts get in trouble again. A study showed that nearly 50 percent of inmates return to prison within five years after being released.
State Rep. Patrick Jefferson, D-Homer, is sponsoring House Bill 210, which would make more infirm inmates eligible for release. Martiny has a similar measure with Senate Bill 229.
Lopinto also supports releasing infirm inmates to nursing homes.
"It would be a smart financial decision for the state," he said, because it would transfer costs to the federal government.
Any far-reaching bills would run headlong into the sheriffs — a political force throughout Louisiana – who receive $24.39 per day per inmate. Chang reported that they use some of that money to fund their other operations.
"Sheriffs and DAs have always been the roadblock," said Jan Moller, director of the Louisiana Budget Project in Baton Rouge, who as a Times-Picayune Capitol reporter wrote an article in the "Louisiana Incarcerated" series.
Michael Ranatza, executive director of the Louisiana Sheriffs Association, did not respond to an email or return a phone call.
Kane said he is hopeful that will change will come, at some point.
"The fact that conservatives are involved in the effort does matter in a state with a Republican governor and Legislature," he said.


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How not to explore the Austrian Alps:
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Step 2: Rent the largest, most unwieldy vehicle possible.
To the left is a Mercedes Sprinter Van. They don't make vans like this in America (update 3/3: scratch that, they DO make this van in America – just not Mercedes – thanks to Todd for the correction). Bigger than a VW, with standing room and an interior that looks designed for transporting prisoners, the Sprinter Van was my family's rental car of choice for our trip through Germany and Austria. It's also got a manual transmission with the personality of a sick pig.
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In a foreign country.
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In the dead of night.
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Also note that my aunt is constantly swerving to avoid the "bunnies that keep jumping across the road."
Also note that we know only that our destination is a hut made out of wood. Without a phone. Somewhere on the mountain.
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Luckily, some Austrian on vacation decided they needed a cigarette at 1am that night. Their glowing cigarette butt was our salvation. Kind of.
"Over there (add sweeping arm gesture)," was their reply to my aunt's question about our cousins' whereabouts.
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Suddenly, a door swings open, light surrounds and we see our family.
"Didn't you hear us? We've been yelling for you for hours!"
"Oh, we thought you were the cow – she's in the cellar. She's sick."
Our cousins are bizarre.
The next morning, we wake up to this:
Totally worth it.
But I recommend hiking the Alps. In a knight's helmet, if you've got one.
This is, by far, the BEST travel blog post that I have read to date – including better than my own! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
ROFL! By the way, they do make vans like this in America, it's called the Dodge Sprinter. At least they use to make vans like this in America.
Ah this is the way travel should be done. LOL.


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Happy Hunger Games, tributes!
With Mockingjay – Part 2 being released in theaters on Friday, November 20, Costume SuperCenter wants to introduce you to the team that will be taking on – and, hopefully, taking down – President Snow and the Capitol.
While Katniss has assumed her rightful place as the Mockingjay, she certainly won't be alone in her mission. You and your friends might post it on Instagram, but a team like Squad 451 certainly earns the right to use the hashtag #SQUADGOALS.
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Energy policy can be really boring to most people. Energy policy combines a lot of technology and science issues with socio-economic and political issues, which creates a complex relationship. Within this complex relationship, there is a lot of published data, ongoing research, and political work-arounds.
Furthermore, its topics don't grab young minds like drug policy or foreign policy. I suppose oil and gas is not as sexy to think about as the implications of joints and bombs. I get it. Well, I understand you, but I don't agree with you.
However, something that became clear to me when I became more interested in energy policy is that almost no one seems to understand it even a little bit. It is like there is a complete black out of knowledge among Americans when it comes to our energy policy and interests. This surprised me because energy policy is so important. It effects everyone in the United States no matter what. If you are reading this blog, you are using energy to read this blog and to keep the servers up for this blog. We all have lights to turn on. We all have vehicles to ride in, whether it is our own car, a bus, or an Uber. Our lives, our planet, and our standards of living are all in wedlock with the energy policies of the nation.
Many friends of mine were fascinated with the Standing Rock protests, which how could you not be with the terrible brutality those protesters had to go through. Yet, very few of these friends had much of a coherent clue of what it was they wanted. They didn't know how much pipeline had already been built in the United States (around 2.5 million miles), and why this was decided as an effective method to transport oil and gas. They didn't know what alternatives there were to a pipeline, and they didn't really know where this pipeline was being placed and who had ownership of this land. However, these to me were minor lapses of understanding. I mean besides industry leaders and top policy wonks, who could really give you the amount of pipeline built in the US right off the top of their head? (Me. THAT'S WHO!)
The most egregious misunderstanding is that many of them truly believed we could live in a world without fossil fuels right now. That we could simply pack up our oil, gas, and coal operations, and there would only be minor complications. This is laughably ignorant, and it is such a widespread idea among college students! Even students at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, which is an engineering and science school! I don't want to get too bogged down on this specific point and will devote a post on its own to this topic, but looking at the primary energy consumption data posted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration should help clear up this fable. Looking at the amount of energy produced in total from 2015 (97.22 quadrillion BTUs) compared to the amount of energy produced by renewables, which includes hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar, and biomass, in 2015 (9.450 quadrillion BTUs), it is clear that renewables have a lot of work to do before we can completely throw away fossil fuels. Getting rid of oil and gas outright would clearly cause widespread shortages, which means immense suffering among people that need electricity right now (think hospitals, 911 responders, etc).
And my anecdotal evidence of my friends is not the only evidence I have for people being grossly ignorant on energy policy issues. Americans have been historically really bad with energy policy.
In 1978, two thirds of Americans polled thought that a nuclear power plant accident could result in an explosion like Hiroshima. Furthermore, this was around the same time that James Bridges' movie, The China Syndrome, came out, which claimed that during a nuclear power plant melt down, the fuel rods would be so hot that they could burrow all the way to China. People watched and, presumably, believed this movie.
In 1977, 52% of Americans polled by Roper answered that they thought solar power would overtake foreign oil imports in the next 5 years, and 16% thought that wind power could do it. Yet here we are, still importing foreign oil 40 years later.
In the 1970s, a majority of Americans thought that the gas lines and energy shortages were due to oil companies greedily hiding their oil somewhere out of the United States so that they could sell oil for higher prices! As if the instability in the Middle East (particularly Israel and Egypt), environmental regulations, and inflation played absolutely no roles in rising oil prices!
But perhaps, people are smarter now. All these examples are from the 1970s, and after 40 years, perhaps the public became wiser. I will delve into this question on future blog posts. I have to get you to come back to my blog somehow!
(The historical polls referenced in this post all came from Eric R.A.N. Smith's book Energy, the Environment, and Public Policy, which can be bought on Amazon here)


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The Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. supports historic preservation in part through its Junior Board of Trustees, a talented and dedicated group of seven to thirteen high school students (10th-12th graders) whose exclusive mission is to preserve local history. This educational initiative fosters civic responsibility, heightens an appreciation for local history, and introduces students to the world of philanthropy. The Junior Board of Trustees awards $33,000 in grants annually to worthwhile historic preservation/restoration projects in Northeast Georgia.
The mission of the Watson-Brown Foundation Junior Board of Trustees is to seek out and determine historic preservation opportunities in Northeast Georgia. These opportunities, aligned with education, include, but are not limited to, historic projects and organizations that will preserve the past for future generations.
The Junior Board of Trustees devotes many hours to meetings, research, interviews, and site visits in the field of historic preservation and restoration in Northeast Georgia. It is the responsibility of each Junior Board member to become actively involved in the project nomination and grant decision process. A certain commitment is required of the members to remain on the Board, which includes, but is not limited to:
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Instead of having to make a measurement between two points the GPS receiver measures distance to a minimum of three of the twenty four satellites by using the travel time of radio signals from the satellites. This requires very accurate electronic timing circuits which have only become available recently.
Along with distance, you need to know exactly where the artificial stars (satellites) are in space in order to extrapolate an angle from the Global Positioning System receiver position to them. GPS satellites are positioned in orbits high enough that their rate of forward speed matches their rate of fall and they are spaced around the earth so that no matter where you are at least three satellites can be acquired at the same time by the GPS. They are said to be in geosynchronous orbits, they stay in the same position relative to the earth as it rotates on its axis.
The twenty four satellites are essentially dumb radio transmitters. All the calculations are done in the GPS receiver which compares the code being transmitted from the satellites with its own internal code. The difference between the codes match times the speed of light equals the distance the GPS receiver is from each satellite. It compares the code differences between the signals from three or more satellites and resolves the distances to its actual location on earth..
The math equation is "velocity X travel time = distance" little more complicated then the problems we did in high school. In the case of GPS receiver it is measuring a radio signal so the velocity is going to be the speed of light or roughly 186,000 miles per second and the times are measured in millionths of a second.
The GPS receiver is an extremely accurate device and with it one can always know where they are and via the feature of being able to record location points - way points - and go back to them additionally one is never lost and can always return to a point which they have been and entered in the unit or have manually entered the coordinates of. You can, "if so inclined", give someone else the coordinates of your favorite deer stand, fishing hole or dive treasure, which they can enter in their unit and easily find.
There are several manufacturers of exellent
gps receivers
handheld and permanently mountable units for vehicles and boats.