Memories fade, evidence dries up, and witnesses disappear, making convicting the guilty harder.
But prison education programs were radically undermined during the 1990's, when Congress made convicted felons ineligible for Pell grants, the federal tuition aid program aimed primarily at the poor.
Proposition 34 makes convicted killers work in prison and pay restitution for victims' families' compensation -- as they should.
Since we can't seem to figure out how to deal with rapists and pedophiles in this country lets make convicted felons be forced into sterilization.
Even Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which has already made convicted felons out of multiple former Trump associates, has failed to put much of a dent in his support, according to a multitude of public surveys.
Yes, just about all of the people caught up in the sprawling probe that has already made convicted felons out of several Trump cohorts have been Republicans or conservatives.
Many in the field reject the notion that the firsthand experience of prison makes convict criminologists any more qualified to write about the subject, and some even contend that it can be a hindrance.
The real talk of Providence, many people say, is whether federal investigators will ultimately bring down Vincent A. Cianci Jr., the city's beloved, marinara-sauce-making, convicted felon of a mayor, who is a driving force behind its current much-trumpeted renaissance.
According to a new U.K. study, however, the comments that men's magazines make about women are almost identical to those made by convicted rapists.
A law passed in 1996 made noncitizens convicted of felonies subject to deportation.
