The Department of Justice's Inspector General issued a report recently that echoed one of the biggest complaints about criminal justice in America: when inmates are released, they are rarely prepared for their return home.

The watchdog identified "several weakness" with the Release Preparation Programs - RPP for short - which are supposed to reduce recidivism by ensuring an inmates smooth transition back into civil society.

The report showed that course offerings are inconsistent across Bureau of Prisons facilities - that curriculums are "limited to what is already available at the institution" - and that a "significant number" of inmates did not finish their RPP before they were released.

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Is media bias helping Donald Trump? Coverage of the candidates' charities offers clues" by Douglas Perry.

Article: "Ex-Texas official: Trump U probe dropped due to politics" by Michael Biesecker.

Article: "Embarrassing Photos of Me, Thanks to My Right-Wing Stalkers" by Bill McKibben.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Assange : Bernie Sanders Was Threatened To Drop Out Of The Race ".

Article: "No, Julian Assange Didn't Claim Bernie Sanders Was Threatened To Drop Out" by Aaron Kesel.

Article: "Chris Wallace Won't Call Candidates On Their Lies During Last Presidential Debate" by Nick Visser.

Article: "Trump dismisses questions about improper gift to Florida attorney general" by Jose A. DelReal and David A. Fahrenthold.

Article: "Obama Confronts Vietnam War" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Congress returns with just weeks to prevent government shutdown" by Erin Kelly.

Article: "Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe granted voting rights to 13,000 ex-felons-again" by Hanna Kozlowska.

Quote: "This plan [which included felony disenfranchisement] will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county . . . will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government" - Carter Glass.

Article: "Carter Glass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte calls Barack Obama a 'son of a whore' - video" by Reuters.

Article: "Barack Obama cancels meeting after Philippines president calls him 'son of a whore'" by Damien Gayle.

Article: "The New President Of The Philippines Is Donald Trump On Steroids" by Nick Robins-Early.

Article: "Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living" by BBC.

Article: "Polls: Iowa: Trump vs. Clinton".

Movie: "The Insider".

Movie: "In the Heart of the Sea".

Site: Backbone Campaign.

Video: What Is Solutionary Rail? (w/Guest: Bill Moyer).

Article: "We Hired A Native Tagalog Speaker: Here's What The Filipino Prez REALLY Said" by Nizza Gueco.

Article: "Philippines President Duterte expresses regret for cursing Obama" by TMN.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Phyllis Schlafly, 'First Lady' of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92" by Douglas Martin.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Law: "Judiciary Act of 1789".

Video: Conservative Icon Says Get Rid of Ryan & Stand With Trump! (w/Guest: Phyllis Schlafly).

Article: "Mercenaries Just Attacked Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray (VIDEO)" by September 3, 2016.

Article: "FULL Exclusive Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Co. Attacks Native Americans with Dogs & Pepper Spray" by Democracy Now!

Article: "If you're a white gun humping government hating American seizing and occupying government land" by onecaliberal.

FaceBook: "Standing Rock Sioux Tribe".

TV: "GPS" by Fareed Zakaria.

Article: "Barack Obama is now alone in Washington" by Fareed Zakaria.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maquiladora" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Decline of the Maquiladora" by Bloomberg.

Petition: "Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline" by Bobbi Jean Three Legs and the Oceti Sakowin Youth.

Petition: "Stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which endangers the water supply to Native American reservations" by C.S.

Article: "Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites?" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Dakota Access Pipeline Protests In North Dakota Turn Violent" by Eyder Peralta.

Book: "Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America" by Peter Farb.

Site: Kim Weaver for Congress.

Movie: "The Kingdom Of Survival".

Book: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky.

Article: "The Power of Nightmares" by Adam Curtis.

Article: "Clinton aide destroyed Hillary's phones by 'breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer,' FBI documents reveal" by Jessica Chia.

Article: "FBI: Hillary Clinton Lost Cell Phones with Classified Emails" by Joel B. Pollak.

Article: "One of Hillary Clinton's Laptops Got 'Lost' in The Mail" by Katie Pavlich.

Movie: "The Producers".

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Article: "G20 Talk Between Obama and Putin "Constructive but Not Conclusive"" by Emily Tamkin.

Article: "Chinese Official Jumps In Susan Rice's Face Before G20 Summit, Secret Service Intervenes" by Angela Bronner Helm.

Article: "Philippines President Duterte expresses regret for cursing Obama" by TMN.

Article: "U.S., Russia Meeting on Sidelines of G20 Summit Ends Without Deal on Syria War" by Ben Blanchard.

Article: "US Intel Agencies Investigating Covert Russian Influence Before Election" by Jonah Bennett.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Article: "What Keeps the Rich and Powerful up at Night, and Why They're Happy You Don't Care" by Tom Streithorst.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Article: "Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan", February 26, 1997.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Scam Phone Calls Continue; IRS Identifies Five Easy Ways to Spot Suspicious Calls" by IRS.

Article: "Nigerian scams" by ScamWatch.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tribe files emergency request to stop Dakota Access Pipeline" by Holly Yan and Shawn Nottingham.

Article: "Investigation Of The Baltimore City Police Department" by DoJ, August 10, 2016.

Article: "Canine Expert Decries "Egregious" & "Horrific" Dog Attacks on Native Americans Defending Burial Site" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Washington tribes stand with Standing Rock Sioux against North Dakota oil pipeline" by Lynda V. Mapes.

Article: "Martial Law: United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Needs 7 of 10 White Guys" by David S. Bernstein.

Site: "Real Clear Politics".

Article: "Oklahoma sees dozens of fracking water wells shut down after major earthquake" by Reuters.

Article: "Yellowstone Caldera" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Yellowstone Volcano: Would Supervolcano Fracking Ever Be A Good Idea?" by Patrick Frye.

Article: "Unreal (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

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