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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 10:22 AM

  HRH

  Isn't this a start?

  Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Support

  Obama will provide job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling to ex-offenders, so that they are successfully re-integrated into society. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program to improve ex-offender employment and job retention rates.

  Eliminate Sentencing Disparities

  Obama believes the disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and should be completely eliminated.

  Expand Use of Drug Courts

  Obama will give first-time, non-violent offenders a chance to serve their sentence, where appropriate, in the type of drug rehabilitation programs that have proven to work better than a prison term in changing bad behavior.

  Record of Advocacy: Obama has worked to promote civil rights and fairness in the criminal justice system throughout his career. As a community organizer, Obama helped 150,000 African Americans register to vote. As a civil rights lawyer, Obama litigated employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and voting rights cases. As a State Senator, Obama passed one of the country's first racial profiling law and helped reform a broken death penalty system. And in the U.S. Senate, Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.

  —Retired Military Patriot Read Retired Military Patriot's other letters
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