Only one in ten of the people in prison who apply for parole receives it in Alabama, and a new report is prompting calls to reform the state s parole system. The ACLU s Alabama Parole Watch Report observed around 300 parole hearings during the summer, and found the current system contributes to overcrowding and racial disparities - and unfairly denies parole to some people who pose no public-safety threat. Alison Mollman, interim legal director at the ACLU of Alabama, said even individuals who are cleared for work release in communities have an 85% parole denial rate. .
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Latinos make up 32.5% of Arizona s population and a recent webinar looked at the important role Latinos play in shaping the U.S. economy. According to the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles - not only do Latinos have a high labor participation rate in the state of Arizona, they also are more likely to own a home relative to the average U.S. .
A network of New York City community health centers is in the crossfire of the city s migrant crisis. Ryan Health is a system of primary health centers working with asylum-seekers since they began arriving in April 2022. Since then, the city has cared for more than 101,000 migrants while the Ryan Health network has worked with around 5,000 migrants. .
Conservation groups are concerned about a mining exploration project proposed near the headwaters of the Boise River. The Idaho Copper Corporation is seeking approval from the U.S. Forest Service to look for copper and molybdenum, used in steel alloys, about 50 miles north of Boise. .