Prisons, public and private, must be accountable for their practices with drug addicts.
He said he planned to introduce legislation today that would hold gun manufacturers accountable for distribution practices that allow guns to enter the illegal market.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, and 30 other Democratic representatives from California told the Justice Department, the Federal Reserve and the comptroller of the currency that "it is time that banks are held accountable for their practices".
They sought to call attention to what they saw as a variety of injustices, including their belief that major corporations particularly banks and other financial institutions needed to be held more accountable for risky practices.
Among their grievances, the protesters say they want to see steps taken to ensure that the rich pay a fairer share of their income in taxes, that banks are held accountable for reckless practices and that more attention is paid to finding jobs for the unemployed.
How can we hold others accountable for illicit practices like waterboarding if we have adopted them ourselves?
They provide widespread opportunities for government corruption since they are invisible and the buyers and sellers of government actions cannot be held accountable for corrupt practices.
The collaboration is one of many recent efforts to hold lenders accountable for their practices leading up to the foreclosure crisis.
Rather than stand on the sidelines as their sons are poached by law enforcement and cast into our nation's criminal justice system, notorious for its disparate impact on racial minorities, Muslim mothers should develop community anti-entrapment programs that includes holding politicians accountable for abusive practices.
Cariello's industry has not seemed so concerned about taxpayer money as it has taken up to $32 billion a year in federal dollars, and as it has fought aggressively against rules that would hold colleges accountable for deceptive practices, sky-high prices, and poor student outcomes.
