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What Sandy Hook [-] did was shine a spotlight on school safety. 

A couple of interesting news stories appeared today in the Los Angeles Times. The first one is titled Forbes’ tally of billionaires jumps 16%; Buffett drops in list.” The second is called Nearly half of Americans are one emergency from financial ruin.”

As I have written before jails have been largely reserved for the poor and at one time in history words like jails and poorhouses (along with workhouses and prisons) were used interchangeably.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CJCJ report analyzes new data from the last quarter of 2012. Finds county disparities contribute to prison crisis and impact all CA taxpayers.

Nearly 18 months after the state’s prison realignment law took effect, Merced officials agree the jury is still out on whether it meets its intended goals.