The original S565 sought to eliminate unjust housing & employment barriers & boost economic growth by providing automatic expunctions in cases of not-guilty verdicts or dismissed charges. But changes to the bill made by the House judiciary committee do the opposite.
In the state which already had the highest over-incarceration of Black residents in the country, this shameful stat has reached a new high. Black people make up 72.4% of the state prison population, but less than a third of Maryland's population overall.
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Joining the 13 original states is one thing, but becoming the 13th Clean Slate state would be a different kind of revolution for #Maryland. That is, if MD passes the Clean Slate Act this spring. #CleanSlateMD is working to make sure that happens.
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Last week, Russia’s parliament moved to de-ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which prohibits all nuclear explosive tests by its parties. FCNL urges stronger, high-level diplomacy to uphold & advance this critical international agreement. https://t.co/WiFb6bwGos
If you're defending Republican partisan gerrymandering today because of a Democratic map you saw from 20, 30 or 40 years ago, stop and really think about what you're doing.
(Last time any NC Dem drew an election map was 2003.)
North Carolina deserves fair representation. #ncpol
At any given time 122,000 people are held in solitary confinement in America. That’s 6% of the prison population. This is an incredible amount of human suffering. https://t.co/hIr3w88j07
I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):