After his release, Mr. Neptune was taken by ambulance to a United Nations hospital for treatment and observation, said Jacques Dyotte, who heads a United Nations program to reform Haiti's prison system.
Unsafe factories, grinding poverty, being forced to work against your will or to perform sexual favors for your boss under the threat of violence -- those are the conditions that workers set out to eliminate when they build a social responsibility program to reform their own workplaces.
"We have so much work to do in this country," he begins his standard speech, and, having thus enlisted the audience as his partner, he describes an America divided by economic and racial inequality and lays out a program to fix it: education reform, a national healthcare program, economic policies to spur job growth.
With the Democrats enjoying huge Congressional majorities, everything seemed to be on the table: immigration reform, a program to combat climate change, card-check legislation, a wave of trust-busting in the banking sector — and at the least, the very least, a return to Clinton-era tax rates.
But at some point New York City, state, and national education officials must be forced to recognize that reshuffling the deck is not school reform or a program to improve the lives of students and their families.
"From the business perspective the most important element of immigration reform is a program to supply the U.S. economy with the workers it needs to recover from the downturn and grow in years ahead, replacing the current unlawful influx with a legal flow," said the Chamber of Commerce's Johnson.
Supporters of the employment of inmates include law enforcement officials who view the programs as a way to reform convicts and business groups who see inexpensive labor.
Those groups have said that they support expanding access to medical care and giving people with preëxisting conditions affordable options, and doctors' valid complaints about aspects of Obamacare are a reason to reform the program, not abandon it.
The third program was a separate effort to reform Chilean legal education, led by Stanford Law School and funded by the Ford Foundation.
