Thanks to a private donation by the James L. Knight Foundation, Mayor Nutter announced this week plans to start a program known as the Managed Reintegration Network (MRN). The MRN hopes to give 400 to 500 ex-offenders a year a chance to get basic work experience so that they can gain meaningful employment after they […]
Archives for February 2009
An Argument Against Capital Punishment
On February 1st, 2009, New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak gave a speech concerning New Jersey’s choice to eliminate capital punishment. In this speech Senator Lesniak questions the effectiveness of capital punishment in deterring violent crime. Senator Lesniak’s stance that capital punishment doesn’t deter crime demonstrates a problem with capital punishment. To read the entire speech, […]