White House Helps Inmates Get Jobs Before Release

The White House is trying to help 2,200 federal prisoners line up work and housing before they are released next month, reports The Marshall Project. The release is made possible by the First Step Act. The prisoners to be let out in July are the largest group to be freed so far. Their sentences are being reduced under a provision effective next month that increases the amount of credit prisoners could get for good conduct in custody. The intent was to train inmates to find work and to screen them for any risk they might pose to public safety.

Advocates for the law are concerned that the inmates aren’t prepared to land jobs, find housing or obtain transportation from prison to places where they will live. Congress has not yet funded the five-month-old law, and the Department of Justice has failed to allocate significant funding for it. Criminal justice reforms could be set back if many prisoners reoffend or if someone commits a high-profile crime. About 45 percent of people released from federal prison return within five years, says the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Until now, the law’s biggest impact has come from a provision that cut heavy sentences for crack cocaine. The change has set free 643 federal inmates. With weeks remaining before thousands more prisoners are freed, the Trump administration has assigned the U.S. Probation Office and the Department of Labor to help people prepare to return home. White House officials are seeking as much help as possible from the private sector.

https://thecrimereport.org/2019/06/05/white-house-helps-inmates-get-jobs-before-release/

OH Doctor Charged In 25 Drug-OD Murders of Patients

An Columbus, Ohio critical-care doctor was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were deliberately given overdoses of painkillers, reports the Associated Press. Dr. William Husel, who was fired from the Mount Carmel Health System in December and stripped of his medical license, turned himself in for an arraignment. Husel’s attorney said he didn’t intend to kill patients.

Mount Carmel Health System said Husel ordered potentially fatal drug doses for 29 patients over several years, including five who may have been given that pain medication when there still was a chance to improve their conditions with treatment. The health system’s officials said Husel wasn’t removed from patient care until four weeks after a concern about him was raised last fall, and that three patients died during those weeks after getting excessive doses he ordered. More than two dozen wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against the doctor and the hospital system. Mount Carmel has publicly apologized and settled some of the civil cases for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

https://thecrimereport.org/2019/06/06/oh-doctor-charged-in-25-drug-od-murders-of-patients/

Spit & Acquit: Orange County’s ‘Shadow’ Experiment in Genetic Surveillance

If you’re ticketed in California’s Orange County for a misdemeanor, prosecutors may offer you a deal that could be hard to refuse.

If you agree to pay $75 for a technician to take a sample of your DNA, your case will either be dismissed or you’ll face a minimal penalty if convicted.

Since 2007, some 150,000 Orange County residents have accepted the plea, in what local courts call a “Spit and Acquit” policy—and what one study describes in alarming terms as a “shadow” program to create an expansive DNA database, with slim justification for increasing public safety.

“The prosecution of marginal petty misdemeanor cases has allowed [Orange County] prosecutors to create a vast genetic surveillance system that would otherwise not exist,” writes Andrea L. Roth in a study published in the California Law Review.

Although Orange County’s approach to misdemeanor offenses is, apparently, the only one of its kind in the country, it illustrates the growing danger of an alliance between law enforcement and private surveillance technology operating with little public oversight, according to Roth, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law

https://thecrimereport.org/2019/05/30/spit-and-aquit-orange-countys-shadow-experiment-in-genetic-surveillance/

Anybody remember this

My baby, she may not a-look

Like one of those bunnies out of the playboy club

But she got somethin' much greater than gold

Crazy 'bout that girl 'cause she got so much soul

I said she got the kind of lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'

Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow

And I know that she knocks me off my feet

(Have mercy on me)

'Cause she knocks me off my feet

There is no girl in the whole world

That can love me like you do, yeah

Oh, my baby when she walks by

All the fellows go, ooh, and I know why

It's simply 'cause that girl, she looks so fine

And if she ever leaves me I would lose my mind

MERCY MERCY MERCY+The Buckinghams (#5 IN 1967) HQ

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>>6688545

So much for vault 7 kek … OH wait that's they have kek all the have kek

Computer virus Stuxnet a 'game changer,' DHS official tells Senate

Seven years after Stuxnet: Industrial systems security once again in the spotlight

June seems to be historically rich in important events relating to the security of industrial systems.

For example, June 17th, 2010, may be considered the day that Stuxnet was discovered, the malware behind the very first cyberattack to target critical infrastructure, while in June 2014, there were reports of attacks against a number of companies using Havex, a remote access trojan that collects data from ISC/ SCADA (Industrial Control System/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.

And, more recently, in June 2017, ESET published its analysis of Industroyer, another big threat to ICS systems.

Stuxnet: First ever and unequalled in complexity

Stuxnet was a computer worm that was discovered by the Belarus IT security company VirusBlokAda on June 17th 2010 (the day they dated their description of the malware – at the time under another name).

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/06/16/seven-years-stuxnet-industrial-systems-security-spotlight/

>>6688675

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

>>6688711

Do you really think it was a accident

Three Mile Island accident

The Three Mile Island accident was the partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.[2] The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident with wider consequences.[3][4]

The accident began with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant's user interface. In particular, a hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release.[5]

The accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among activists and the general public, and resulted in new regulations for the nuclear industry. It has been cited to have been a catalyst to the decline of a new reactor construction program, a slowdown that was already underway in the 1970s.[6] The partial meltdown resulted in the release of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.

Anti-nuclear movement activists expressed worries about regional health effects from the accident.[7] However, epidemiological studies analyzing the rate of cancer in and around the area since the accident, determined there was a small statistically non-significant increase in the rate and thus no causal connection linking the accident with these cancers has been substantiated.[8][9][10][11][12][13] Cleanup started in August 1979, and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident