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Arrest Records and the Expanding Movement to “Ban the Box”
Target, Wal-Mart and Bed, Bath & Beyond are among the companies that no longer ask job applicants if they’ve ever been arrested. We hear why the “ban the box” movement is spreading across the country.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenAfter 20 years of being “tough on crime,” local cops have arrested almost one third of all Americans. Their records are easily available to banks, college officials and prospective employers, even when their crimes were minor, or they were never charged. Now, 60 cities and 12 states have laws that “ban the box” on application forms that asks, “Have You Ever Been Arrested?” We’ll hear what that means for the individuals involved, employers fearing lawsuits for making mistakes - and for public safety.
Also, U.S Ebola patients are discharged, and Islamist terrorism in Iraq: home grown in Britain.
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3 storiesU.S. Ebola Patients Discharged: "Pose No Public Health Threat"
Dr. Kent Brantly, the medical missionary who contracted Ebola in West Africa, was released today from the Infectious Disease Unit at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Bruce Ribner, Director of the Infectious Disease Unit, announced Brantly’s release with reassuring words about what he called “a rigorous course of treatment” and “testing."
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The crime wave of the 1990’s led to a crackdown sometimes called “broken windows” — featuring increased arrests, often for minor infractions, sometimes for no real infractions at all. The result: almost one third of all Americans, 77 million people, have been arrested.
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In the video of journalist James Foley’s beheading, his masked executioner speaks with a London accent—bringing Prime Minister David Cameron home from a family vacation, calling the killing “shocking and depraved.”
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