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 It has almost been a year since President Joseph Biden promised to make a pathway to citizenship for those who entered the United States illegally for a better life. The immigration reform needs to be done sooner rather than later.    On Jan. 20, 2021, Biden sent the U.S. Citizenship Act bill to Congress in order...

Roy Aaron Lemond, age 70, of Brownwood passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Funeral Services for Roy will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday May 10, 2021 at the Bangs Church of Christ with Michael Light officiating, interment will follow with Military Honors at the Bangs Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12-2 P.M. prior to his services at the Bangs Church of Christ. Blaylock Funeral Home of Brownwood is in charge of arrangements. Previous Story

Roy Aaron Lemond, age 70, of Brownwood passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Funeral Services for Roy will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday May 10, 2021 at the Bangs Church of Christ with Michael Light officiating, interment will follow with Military Honors at the Bangs Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12-2 P.M. prior to his services at the Bangs Church of Christ. Blaylock Funeral Home of Brownwood is in charge of arrangements.

By DJ 33 1/3 Apr 22, 2021 Miami Marlins Photo Day Miami Marlins outfielder Corey Dickerson listed his condominium at The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach for $2.695 million. A two-level, loft-style unit, has three bedrooms and a den, three full and one half baths and a spacious terrace with a summer kitchen and Jacuzzi. Inside has gray porcelain flooring, a great room with a 25-foot ceiling, floor-to-ceiling windows with remote-controlled shades, a kitchen with Boffi cabinetry and Gaggenau...

"A Reintegration Agenda for the 117th Congress: Criminal Record Relief, Federal Benefits, & Employment" The title of this post is the title of this notable new short report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center.  This blog posting at CCRC, titled "Second Chance Month: A Federal Reintegration Agenda" provides some background on the report.  Here is the reports introduction: The new Congress has an opportunity to make significant bipartisan progress on criminal justice reform, includ...

The past weeks Washington Post included this notable op-ed by Charles Lane under the headline "Here’s some hope for supporters of criminal justice reform." A focal point of the op-ed was this newly published paper by sociologist Michael Light titled "The Declining Significance of Race in Criminal Sentencing: Evidence from US Federal Courts."  Here is how the op-ed discusses some key findings with a positive spin: How many more months in prison do federal courts give Black drug offenders as ...

A Northampton County inmate wasn’t able to vote in November. Now he’s suing the county. Updated Mar 10, 2021; A Northampton County inmate awaiting trial was approved for a mail-in ballot, but said he never received a ballot in time and was unable to vote in the November elections. The county says Darious Molina’s ballot was mailed -- to his home address that he used to register to vote. Molina, of Bethlehem Township, is now suing the county’s elections office, the county department of ...

Its a myth that immigrants are more criminally oriented|column Alison Dagnes and Lawrence M. Eppard, York Daily Record This York artists work carries a broader message on immigration Replay Video UP NEXT Imagine coming down with a serious health condition. Would you want your doctor to try just anything and hope it works? Probably not. A neck brace will not repair a ruptured Achilles tendon. Ibuprofen does not cure cancer. Furthermore, the wrong prescription not only leaves you...

Date Time Foreign national suspects appear in court and sentenced more often Compared to suspects with the Dutch nationality, foreign nationals face court proceedings more often and are given a prison sentence more often than Dutch suspects. This was the outcome of research conducted by Hilde Wermink, Assistant Professor at Leiden Law School, and American sociologist Michael Light. Hilde Wermink As a consequence of more immigration and the free movement of persons, particularly in Eur...

Contributing Writer contributed photo New data confirms what’s been true all along: Trump built his brand selling fear-mongering lies about immigrants and crime. As Donald Trump leaves office, it’s worth remembering how he first launched his campaign: by calling immigrants “murderers” and “rapists.” This was outrageous then. And there’s more evidence now that it was, of course, false. A new study finds that “undocumented immigrants have considerably lower crime rates than native...