Concerns for food portions and worship services within the Missouri Department of Corrections is being addressed by Consolidated Social Work Services and Kansas City Criminal Justice Task Force Family Advocacy Group. A referral has been made to Missouri C.U.R.E.

Hearing for long term sentencing bill tentatively set for April 11, 2012. 12 Noon, Jefferson City, Missouri. Hearing room # 4.

If you or someone you know can assist us by reviewing some cases to see if there is any thing available to the individuals who are incarcerated I would be most grateful. The back ground work has been done. There are facts that were not entered into the court proceedings. We have spoken with the Prosecutors office and the State Attorney General. They are not interested. If there is anyone that can assist us please let me know. We are volunteers but we are not…

Pepsi Beverages Co. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants-even if they weren't convicted of a crime. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is working to crackdown on hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics, said Wednesday that the company's policy of not hiring workers with arrest records disproportionately excluded more than 300 black applicants. The policy…