He was convicted after Venn admitted to having driven the car, but claimed that Kuenzel had actually shot the clerk, and a 16-year-old passenger in a car that was passing by the store testified that she had seen Venn and Kuenzel inside the store. Kuenzel was implicated in the murder after a car belonging to Harvey Venn, a boarder in Kuenzel’s home, was seen near the crime scene. Meese and Morgenthau belong to different political parties and take opposing views on capital punishment, but both believe that Kuenzel was wrongfully convicted and condemned for the 1987 murder of a convenience store clerk and deserves a chance to present new evidence. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, believe that Alabama death row prisoner William Kuenzel is innocent and are urging the U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, and Robert Morgenthau, the long-time district attorney of Manhattan who served as a U.S. Supporters of H.R.Edwin Meese III (pictured), who served as U.S. Their families can receive wage disbursements for child support victims receive restitution payments through income withholdings, and communities benefit from the increased tax base and the decreased likelihood of returning prisoners committing new crimes. Plans to improve and expand industry programs will benefit not only prisoners. Further, if Congress seeks to institute fair and constructive reforms to prison industries, it should extend the Fair Labor Standards Act and federal health and safety standards to cover working prisoners. The federal government should provide more vocational training and employment, education and drug treatment programs in prisons, not fewer. 1577 is a perilous step in the wrong direction. At a time when the United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, H.R. The ACLU believes prisoner rehabilitation programs are essential to reducing crime and high levels of incarceration. 1577, the Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2002, ignores the positive effects of prison industries by significantly reducing the number of prisoners who can participate in UNICOR over time and provides few alternative programs for prisoner rehabilitation. UNICOR’s success is measured by studies that show prisoners who work in Federal Prison Industries, upon release, are more likely to be employed, earn a higher wage and are 24 percent less likely to be engaged in criminal behavior than prisoners who do not participate. The Federal Bureau of Prison’s industry program, UNICOR, is the largest in the country but employs only 18 percent of its prison population. Industries range from the refurbishing of old computers to the building of new office furniture. Seven percent of the more than 2 million people behind bars participate in a prison industry program. Today, the American Civil Liberties Union is pleased to join with Attorney General Edwin Meese in support of prison industry programs and to share our common concerns regarding current federal legislation. Prison industry programs for incarcerated men and women create invaluable employment opportunities that reshape lives by confronting these obstacles. Their inability to find work because of poor skills, functional illiteracy, discrimination and the many other obstacles that former prisoners face upon release all contribute to our nation’s distressingly high levels of recidivism and reincarceration. One year after release, up to 60 percent of ex-offenders are unemployed. The majority of them return to their communities isolated from their families, with no savings, little education or skills, and few job prospects. This year more than 600,000 men and women will be released from prison. “Increasing Employment Opportunities for Federal Prisoners, Not Limiting Them, Will Reduce Recidivism” 1577, the Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2002 Statement of Kara Gotsch, ACLU National Prison Project
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