Welfare reform hits Indian reservations hard in job programs
Rapid City report details two years of welfare reform effects across Cheyenne River Pine Ridge Sisseton Wahpeton Standing Rock and Rosebud Reservations. JOBS program budgets are small, cutting job training and delaying employment for hundreds as poverty rates rise. Officials warn benefits cuts speed up with time limits while transportation and remote locations hinder finding work. Distributed by SRS News Service
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City to pay 2.44 million in police corruption settlements
Philadelphia will award 2,440,000 in damages to 86 claimants wrongfully arrested by members of the 39th District’s Five Squad. Dozens more cases are expected as investigations continue. 187 convictions have been reversed. The district attorney acknowledged prosecutors’ role.
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Leaner Times Ahead for Indiana Sheriffs
Indiana sheriffs face changes to a century old pay practice tied to inmate meals. Law allowed counties to slot unspent meal funds to sheriffs, with Grant County pocketing about 160000 in 1994. Some counties already use straight salaries, but only 42 of 92 have made that switch as jails grow.
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