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A multi-partisan activist group established to expose and resist US imperialism, corpora-terrorism, and the New World Order
Obama calls for second chances after prison | 02 Nov 2015 | The United States jails people at the highest rate in the world and needs to make greater efforts to rehabilitate millions of former prisoners, President Obama said Monday during a visit to New Jersey. Speaking at Rutgers University Law School in Newark, Obama announced several executive actions to help former prisoners secure jobs, housing and education – and he called on Congress to follow up with even more sweeping plans…Nearly 70 million Americans have some sort of criminal record, Obama noted, and each year, more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons.