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On parole or probation thats kierd to go state lines that has ex-cons with jobs make too much money could also qualify for federal tax credit to purchase health insurance through the state exchanges. like everyone else they will be required to have health insurance of some kind starting next january. the expansion is considered significant because this population is generally in worse health than the overall population with hire rates of chronic infectious disease addiction and mental illness. i...

Solidarity to the palestinian people to erase people from cyberspace. it was part of the annual holocaust remembrance day. bad news if you left state or energy drinks. they can both be bad for your heart. both contain compoundses to help with fatty acids. it can chicken the walls of arteries increasing the risk of heart disease. >> newly screened prisoners traditionally walk away with the ben ten ry of a bus ticket. many will be eligible to something else. medicaid healthcare. it will be require...

Process. has an enormous role to play. i just want to mention something with regarding eastern state. we look at that today and its a tourist site. you can visit it. and we look at it and said, god, how horrible? what they dont realize is at least at that time people were asking more serious questions than they are today and weve taken our prisons so far out of sight that we dont see that in an awful lot of cases theyre very much worse than they were 200 years ago. >> yeah. you know, todd, when ...

been busy working the phone trying to figure out what happened, how injured, how many people? >> we dont know how many people have bee shot. i just got off the phone with sergeant jason james of the bryan police department. he said multiple people shot. the investigation is still continuing. they dont know if theres another suspect right now. this did happen off campus just blocks away from the university. its scary for them there. >> scary for people anywhere given what happened recen...

Exploration with marijuana and other drugs. that is the part of the war on drugs that is manufacturing criminals, taking people who would otherwise never get arrested and ruining their lives, throwing them in jail, making them unemployable when they get out, and moving many of them closer to a life of crime now that they are ex-cons instead of mere pot smokers. that could have happened to president obama, but it didnt. not because he was lucky but because his experience with drugs is the normal ...

hostage, jessica buchanan. shes at a hospital in italy. shes going through whats callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. its to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. >> wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? >> i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. >> politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you kn...

she says ging rick -- and rick santorum trails his rivals, but a final count shows he actually won there. could that help him in south carolina and beyond? ill have an exclusive interview with rick santorum this hour. im wolf blitzer in charleston, south carolina, youre in "the situation room". an extraordinary day out on the campaign trail. today just hours before our cnn republican debate, only two days before the crucial primary here, the texas governor rick perry bowed to reality...

youll be getting back to family today. unfortunately, we have to begin with tragic news on this christmas day. were getting word that on christmas day, churches are being attacked. two churches in particular, two bombings. many people are dead and wounded. youre shown the area here, were showing it to you, this is in nigeria, two cities in particular, madala and jos. you see the distance they are apart. a great distance apart. these are christian churches during christmas day services ...

Brand-new, fresh start. thats the goal of students at one university helping ex-cons get into the workforce. we have more from atlanta. >> reporter: hi, gregg. students and employers in nashville, tennessee, are working to put inmates back to work because the unemployment rate for ex-cons is 40 to 50%. as we know, thats five times the national average. we have one story of success, keith wilson. hes a very popular chef at a posh burger joint in nashville, tennessee, called burger up. he has been...

Organization, back in 2001. and one of the major things that we did was actually linked poverty alleviation with -- environmental remediation. by doing those two things we were able to create one of the countrys green job training and place many systems. we train people in the skills of ecological restoration, green roofing to wetland restoration, urban forestry management and most of the people who were trained through this program were ex-cons. they were folks who were in and out of the public...