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Missouri Supreme Court
12:59 pm
Wed January 18, 2012

Mo. Supreme Court chief calls for sentencing fixes in State of Judiciary address

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The Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City, Mo.
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One day after Governor Jay Nixon (D) made his State of the State Address, the annual State of the Judiciary Address was delivered to Missouri lawmakers today.

Chief Justice Rick Teitelman kept his speech short, but did call for the General Assembly to pass changes to the state’s probation and parole system in order to ease Missouri’s prison population.

“I support your effort to help make sentencing practices more cost effective, helping Missouri to become, as Judge (former Chief Justice William) Price stressed so often and so eloquently, both tough and smart.”

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Kit Bond
1:53 pm
Tue September 27, 2011

New Mo. federal courthouse named for former Sen. Bond

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Former Mo. Gov. and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, cuts the ribbon at a new federal courthouse in Jefferson City named after him. Joining him (l-r), his wife Linda, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey, and U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.
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The new federal courthouse in Jefferson City...President Obama signed legislation last week naming the new building after former Mo. Gov. and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond.
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Former Mo. Gov. and U.S. Senator Kit Bond (R) addresses the crowd at today's ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the new federal courthouse in Jefferson City.
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 The ribbon was cut today on a $68 million federal courthouse in Jefferson City, named for former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator Kit Bond (R).

 It replaces an older building, which shares space with a post office, and where judges, jurors, lawyers and criminal defendants all shared the same elevator.  Bond says the new facility is sorely needed.

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Illinois Supreme Court / Prison System
11:41 am
Thu June 16, 2011

Ill. Supreme Court limits taking prisoners' savings

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The Illinois Supreme Court calls it "absurd" to let inmates earn money in prison and then take it away to pay the cost of keeping them behind bars.

The court dismissed a lawsuit in which the Department of Corrections tried to take $11,000 from the savings of convicted murderer Kensley Hawkins. He saved the money working at a furniture-assembly job at a Joliet prison.

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Illinois
12:22 pm
Mon April 4, 2011

Sheriffs want limit on jail wait for mentally ill

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A law enforcement group is supporting legislation to address a backlog of jail inmates waiting to be transferred to crowded state psychiatric facilities.

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