Joseph Sarandos
Head Administrator
Global user
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
ALEPH keeps convicted Jewish-Americans out of prisons
Ever wonder why so few Jews get convicted of their crimes and receive prison sentences? Have you ever supposed that it was because only very few Jews commit crimes in America?
Ever thought it was wholly because the Jewish-owned newspapers and television stations were sytematically screening-out reports of crimes, trials and convictions of Jews?
Well, there are 2 true answers. One is that even the "local" newspapers and television stations - which are almost all owned by "National chains" belonging to Jews - do in fact screen-out any and all reports that show any Jews "in a bad light". The other is that Jewish criminals receive special favoritism by the Courts even after being convicted by Juries, and even when the involved Judges are not themselves Jews.
This happens via a special "dog-wagging tail" that is scarcely known to the general public in America; an organization of which it is safe to say that none of you non-Jewish readers have ever heard about, even though it's been operating since 1981 - more than two centuries.
So now I'll let this dirty little secret be known to you, and you in turn can tell others about it - of course too late for any of us to do anything about it:
http://www.aleph-institute.org/alternative.htm
The Aleph Institute
quote:
Alternative Sentencing Proposals
Consulting Services For Attorneys
Counseling to Offenders and Their Families*
Since 1981, The Aleph Institute has grown to become the nation’s foremost non-profit agency working with and on behalf of Jewish men and women affected by the criminal justice system, and addresses significant issues relating to families in crisis and ancillary effects of prison policies. Over the past twenty years, Aleph has created and implemented programs that counsel offenders and their families, and assist lawyers in eliminating or reducing excessive periods of incarceration.
Aleph is the only Jewish organization providing such a wide range of specialized professional services nationwide.
Pre-sentencing, Aleph prepares proposals for courts across the United States, presenting judges with alternative means to provide punishment while eliminating or minimizing periods of incarceration – and the accompanying separation from family and productive living. In providing these specialized professional services, Aleph has worked with many of the foremost attorneys and criminal justice specialists in the country, and makes available a nationwide network of sentencing specialists, former parole and probation officers, forensic psychologists, social workers, immigration specialists and other professionals in this area. In addition to formal court presentations, Aleph’s staff provides invaluable consulting services to attorneys and counseling to offenders and their families at every stage of the proceedings, including attorney referrals, plea agreement strategies, retention of experts, sentencing guidelines analysis, pre-sentencing investigations and court appearances.
Every proposal submitted by Aleph to the federal courts carefully considers the factors outlined in 28 U.S.C. § 3553, including, but not limited to, "the history and characteristics of the defendant" and the legislative directive to provide "correctional treatment in the most effective manner." Moreover, Aleph works to assist the court in fashioning a particularized sentence "sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes set forth" in the sentencing statute. 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
Aleph’s alternative sentencing proposals are unique, individually-prepared documents. A stringent screening process that includes interviews with the offender and counsel determines eligibility. Aleph’s staff formulates sanctions that utilize modern approaches to reform and rehabilitation, including home detention, electronic monitoring, curfew, community service, financial monitoring, restitution, fines, education, intensive religious and family counseling, and probation.
Invaluable Perspectives
Aleph’s wide experience with the federal and state prison systems also proves invaluable to offenders and their attorneys when alternatives to incarceration are not available by law or when the sentencing court determines that such alternatives are inappropriate. Aleph’s rabbis, staff and volunteers regularly visit over 350 state and federal prisons each year and interact with wardens, chaplains and institutional staff on a daily basis. Aleph also receives approximately 600 collect telephone calls and 1,000 letters each month from inmates around the country and their families.
As a result, Aleph’s staff can provide unique insights and counseling as to what may be expected in the prison setting, which particular institutions may best meet the particular needs of prospective inmates and their families, and what actions should be taken at each step of the process to secure religious and other needs.
___________________________________________________
A Judicially-Recognized Resource
America’s most significant prosecutors, judges, legislators, probation officers and prison officials have recognized The Aleph Institute’s educational and humanitarian accomplishments and have accorded it a unique level of confidence and responsibility.
"The Aleph Institute is doing extraordinary fine work. . . . Aleph helps in three ways. First, it explains to judges and the judicial system when and how alternatives to prison which protect the public are possible. Second, it helps those in prison develop their spiritual lives and maintain contact with their families and the world beyond their bars and barbed wire. Third, it assists those outside, particularly the children of prisoners, to retain their ties with prisoners. As a result of its good work, Aleph is widely known and respected by penal and judicial authorities."
Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, Senior United States District Judge,
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
__________________________________________________
*Aleph does not provide legal representation or legal advice to individuals. Consulting services generally are provided to or through the client’s legal representatives.
__________________________________________________
Rabbi Shalom D. Lipskar
Founder and Chairman
Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar founded The Aleph Institute in 1981 and has presided over its growth ever since. Rabbi Lipskar also is the founder and spiritual leader of The Shul, a synagogue and educational complex serving the Jewish communities in Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek Village, Surfside, and other parts of Dade and Broward counties, Florida.
A noted writer, lecturer, educator and expert on the criminal justice system and families, Rabbi Lipskar has been featured at a number of academic symposia on sentencing issues. His innovative proposals on sentencing and criminal justice have been featured in law reviews, journals and other professional publications, and have been adopted by numerous state and federal judges around the country.
E
Isaac M. Jaroslwicz, Esq.
Executive Director / Director of Legal Affairs
Isaac M. Jaroslawicz joined Aleph after a successful legal career in New York and Florida with the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He graduated magna cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he clerked as an Alexander Judicial Fellow in the chambers of the Hon. Robert W. Sweet, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and was a member of the Cardozo Criminal Law Clinic under the tutelage of Barry Scheck, Esq. Isaac also served as a member of both the Law Review and Moot Court Board, earned faculty and scholastic awards, and won a number of intermural law school trial and appellate competitions.
In recent years, Isaac has become recognized as one of this country’s leading experts on the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines and legal issues surrounding religious expression in institutional environments. He has written and lectured on a host of legal issues, and his testimony before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and Congress are a matter of public record.
Before moving to Florida in 1992, Isaac also served as an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo Law School in New York.
|
|
3/23/2006, 1:29 pm
|
Send Email to Joseph Sarandos
Send PM to Joseph Sarandos
|
Incog4
Senior Member
Global user
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: ALEPH keeps convicted Jewish-Americans out of prisons
Gee thanks, Joseph!
I copied and printed this just in case I turn to a life of crime, but I doubt that ALEPH would be of much help to a Jewish-American who gets convicted of "subversive writing on the internet".
Seriously, I remember this from when you posted it in TFTF and copied it to USC.
But I think you were right to put this under the category of "Zionism" this time around, since there aren't that many of us Jews per capita in America and most of us are religious anyway, so about as many of us would be criminals as were drafted for Korea and Nam. 
The Zionists have a particular interest in "keeping the slate clean" for propaganda purposes, so it figures that they'd be behind this ALEPH organization.
God knows, the African-Americans really need this sort of help, since their relative guilt or innocence seems to be of less importance than convicting and jailing them (maybe especially if they're Black Muslims these days).
Would I use ALEPH if I needed it? You bet! Wouldn't you if there were such an organization for Greek-Americans?
Cripes, poor people of all races are ending up in jail for even "domestic-relations charges" and "failure to pay traffic-tickets," once such charges get converted into Contempt of Court warrants for not showing up at scheduled hearings, or not attending court-ordered Traffic Schools or Anger Management courses.
I've never abused my wife or kids, and I can remember only one traffic ticket from my teen years, but I cringe whenever I see a copcar in my rearview mirror, and I keep hoping that no uniformed cops ever come to my door selling tickets to a Policeman's Ball.
A/G
|
|
3/23/2006, 2:41 pm
|
Send Email to Incog4
Send PM to Incog4
|
Joseph Sarandos
Head Administrator
Global user
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: ALEPH keeps convicted Jewish-Americans out of prisons
Aaron:
"Would I use ALEPH if I needed it? You bet! Wouldn't you if there were such an organization for Greek-Americans?"
Of course I would. Who wouldn't?
But unfortunately, as you pointed out, such organizations are not there for us Gentiles, and this gratuity is based more on the need of the provider than on the needs of the recipients.
|
|
3/25/2006, 5:17 pm
|
Send Email to Joseph Sarandos
Send PM to Joseph Sarandos
|
Add a reply
Powered by AkBBS 0.9.5b - Link to us
- Blogs
- Hall of Honour
- Chat
Click here to get your own free message board
|
You are not logged in (login)
Board's time is: 1/7/2009, 6:18 pm
|
|
|
