News Articles

The information presented in the links below offer us information from many sources. The problems that affect people on Deferred Adjudication are felt all over the world not just on the USA or in Texas. The laws are wrong because they take away peoples right to equal opportunity, and instead impose a standard of unequal results. Read some off the articles below. Some of them are local, some are national, and yet others are foreign they all provide the message that equal opportunity is taken away, and this causes harm to society.

1. Ex-offenders trying to "go straight"
   Ex-offenders trying to "go straight" will be forced back into crime by new legislation which grants employers the right to ask jobseekers for evidence of criminal convictions, according to a new report.
2. Work is a Deterant
   "Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism." American Sociological Review 65:529-46.
3. Programs Contributing to Recidivism Prevention
   
4. Rick Perry's Record setting number of Vetoes
   Rick perry set a new record for vetoing 87 Bills propsed by the house and senate. Now people are worked op about it.
5. The military will accept you but you need a waiver
   This site talks about what the military considers to be an offense. There is a chance they will accept you but this is based on on a waiver, and there is no guarantee that everyone can have a waiver.
   
6. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5661/released.html
   This site would be better if it was updated. some of the links still work. The site is targeted to the EX-CON, not the DA's but if we are all in the same boat then this is as good as any site.
7. ROTC Cadet to graduate and serve as an officer in the US ARMY