According to McKibben, a lower court held that Facebook violated Leader’s patent on 11 of 11 claims, but then invalidated Leader’s patent by finding that Leader had tried to sell its technology too soon (“on-sale bar,” in legal parlance.)

“Leader asked the Federal Circuit to overrule this verdict, because the company’s patent interests were protected by a ‘no-reliance’ agreement that negated any possibility of making offers before we had signed contracts,” said McKibben. “But the court ignored these agreements, accepted Facebook-doctored evidence, and misquoted my testimony to justify their decision.”

“We are extremely disappointed,” McKibben added. “The appeals process is supposed to correct legal errors by juries, not simply root around for new evidence to justify not overturning a jury that was fooled by Facebook tricks.”

McKibben may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. “We firmly believe that the jury erred in their one finding against Leader,” he says. “Facebook is using our invention, as the jury agreed, without our permission. This court just condoned hacking of intellectual property and fabrication of evidence as acceptable business practices.”

The case is Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc., 2011-1366, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Washington). The lower court case is Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc., 08-cv-862, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington).

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The Steganography Analyzer Field Scanner (StegAlyzerFS) is a digital forensic examination tool designed specifically for performing rapid field triage on suspect computers to detect the presence or use of digital steganography to conceal information of criminal activity.

StegAlyzerFS will consist of highly specialized steganography detection software on a bootable USB device. The device scans suspect storage media while preserving its forensic integrity.

StegAlyzerFS will have the capability to detect any of the file artifacts associated with over 1,050 steganography applications. Detecting artifacts is an indication the associated application may have been used to hide something that may be of value to the investigation.

StegAlyzerFS will also have the capability of detecting more than 55 known signatures of steganography applications. Detecting a signature is an indication the associated application was used to hide something.

StegAlyzerFS is expected to become a highly valuable tool for uncovering hidden information in a wide variety of use cases.

For example, it can be used
* at border checkpoints for random searches of computers entering or leaving the country or for searching the computers of individuals acting in a suspicious manner;
* in child abduction cases when time is of the essence for finding any information that may shed light on the whereabouts of the missing child;
* in cases involving child pornography to quickly find images that may have been hidden with steganography in order to identify and rescue the child victims as quickly as possible;
* in cases involving terrorism to detect covert communications between individuals or groups.

“We’re very excited about the potential for StegAlyzerFS becoming a valuable tool for digital forensics examiners around the world. The capability to rapidly find information hidden with steganography in the field may prevent the loss of classified or highly sensitive information, circumvent a terrorist attack, or even save the life of a child,” said Bart Guerreri, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Backbone Security.

StegAlyzerFS will be undergoing field trials soon and product rollout is scheduled for Q3 2012.

For additional information about digital steganography and the StegAlyzer family of products, please visit www.sarc-wv.com or send email to sarc@backbonesecurity.com.

About the SARC:
The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the world’s largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications. For more information: http://www.sarc-wv.com .

About Backbone Security:
In addition to being the leading provider of digital steganalysis tools, Backbone is a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) that conducts automated PCI-DSS compliance assessments with their industry leading One-Stop PCI Scan service. Backbone also provides real-time intrusion monitoring, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning services. For more information: http://www.backbonesecurity.com .

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Mr. Levenglick regularly acts as outside general counsel and adviser to venture-backed start-up, early stage, emerging growth and high growth companies, and as transactional counsel to fund, corporate and high net worth investors in such companies. He has represented clients in a wide range of industry areas with a particular focus upon the internet, software, media, technology and biopharma.

“We are extremely delighted to have an attorney of Martin’s level of knowledge and expertise join our Corporate and Emerging Companies practice,” said Geoff Willard, co-chair of the firm’s corporate practice group. “In addition, I am excited to see our East Coast presence, and in particular our New York presence, further enhanced with the addition of a truly top-notch attorney. VLP continues to focus on creating a place where exceptional attorneys from top-tier, nationally prestigious firms can practice in a more client-centered environment. We are so pleased that Martin has joined the VLP family.”

As company counsel, Mr. Levenglick guides entrepreneurs, management teams, boards of directors and investors from a company’s inception, with particular focus upon and attention to capital raising activities, equity and debt financings, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, corporate partnering transactions, critical business contracts, recapitalizations, liquidity and exit transactions, and key personnel matters. He also works closely with venture capital funds, corporate venture capital groups and strategic investors that finance, sponsor, acquire, and sell such companies, in all phases of their investment cycle, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, change-in-control transactions, and exits; and in connection with fund formation activities.

Mr. Levenglick began his career at O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell LLP, where he practiced for eighteen years (thirteen as a corporate partner), following which he practiced for eight years as a corporate partner in the New York office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and thereafter as a corporate partner in the New York office of Heller Ehrman LLP. He joins us from Morrison Cohen LLP in New York, where he was a partner in the corporate group.

Mr. Levenglick received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. (with first class honours) from McGill University. He is a member of the New York Bar.

“VLP’s people and its truly innovative business model resonate with me in a profound way,” said Mr. Levenglick. “By taking full advantage of cutting-edge technology, the firm is pioneering the future of the practice of law and the seamless delivery of outstanding service to clients in a cost effective manner. I am very much looking forward to collaborating with VLP’s exceptionally distinguished team of lawyers.”

About VLP:
Founded in 2008, VLP (www.vlplawgroup.com) is a business and transactional law firm that delivers top quality, efficient and cost-effective legal services. Our practice reaches across many industry sectors, including high tech, life sciences, angel and venture capital financings, clean tech, retail, consumer product, commercial lending and real estate. VLP has continued its strong growth, and in recent months has added noted attorneys from firms on the West and East coasts who believe VLP’s unique, client-oriented and cost-effective model is the best platform for their practice. Our partners are regularly recognized by their peers as outstanding attorneys, and the firm has been recognized as a top company for its promotion of quality of life in the workplace.

VLP partners represent clients that vary in size from individual executives and early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our client base includes public and private corporations, venture capital investors, private equity funds, educational institutions, nonprofits and individuals. We provide general corporate, licensing, contract, intellectual property protection and counseling, securities regulation, financing, executive compensation, merger and acquisition, real estate, tax and other legal services.

VLP is a geographically distributed firm of highly qualified attorneys with exceptional credentials and an average of over 10 years of experience. We have no central office, and our technology platform allows us to collaborate easily and to operate with a small, highly specialized staff. Our lean model means that we can provide sophisticated, focused services to our clients, and we can do it at competitive rates.

For more information about VLP, visit http://www.vlplawgroup.com .

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About SecuGen:
SecuGen Corporation (www.secugen.com) is the world’s leading provider of advanced, optical fingerprint recognition technology, products, tools and platforms for physical and information security. SecuGen designs and develops FBI-certified fingerprint readers and OEM components, developer kits and software, including NIST/MINEX-compliant algorithms.

Known for high quality, ruggedness, and performance in a wide variety of applications and environmental conditions, SecuGen products are used by world-leading financial, medical, government, educational and corporate institutions and are sold through a partner network of over 200 original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and system integrators around the world.

Since 1998, SecuGen has made considerable investment in research and development for core technologies and to develop, maintain, and protect its valuable worldwide patents. Strengthened and validated through numerous invalidation attempts and upheld in litigation and reexamination, SecuGen’s patents and intellectual property cover essential technology required to manufacture compact, durable and high quality optical fingerprint sensors that have been adopted by leading fingerprint vendors in the biometrics industry.

SecuGen® is a registered trademark of SecuGen Corp. in the United States and other countries.

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That press release noted that SecuGen obtained a permanent injunction against RBH Access Technologies, Inc. and RBH USA, Inc. from importing, offering for sale, distributing or selling within the United States products that incorporate non-licensed Suprema fingerprint sensors. SecuGen now clarifies that, based on information provided by Suprema, RBH Access Technologies, Inc. and RBH USA, Inc. are not Suprema distributors or OEM partners.

About SecuGen:
SecuGen Corporation (www.secugen.com) is the world’s leading provider of advanced, optical fingerprint recognition technology, products, tools and platforms for physical and information security. SecuGen designs and develops FBI-certified fingerprint readers and OEM components, developer kits and software, including NIST/MINEX-compliant algorithms.

Known for high quality, ruggedness, and performance in a wide variety of applications and environmental conditions, SecuGen products are used by world-leading financial, medical, government, educational and corporate institutions and are sold through a partner network of over 200 original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and system integrators around the world.

Since 1998, SecuGen has made considerable investment in research and development for core technologies and to develop, maintain, and protect its valuable worldwide patents. Strengthened and validated through numerous invalidation attempts and upheld in litigation and reexamination, SecuGen’s patents and intellectual property cover essential technology required to manufacture compact, durable and high quality optical fingerprint sensors that have been adopted by leading fingerprint vendors in the biometrics industry.

SecuGen® is a registered trademark of SecuGen Corp. in the United States and other countries.

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They are not intended to provide legal advice, but to familiarize readers with the landscape, so they will not feel intimidated and helpless in their hopefully infrequent encounters with the legal system.

The subject matter of the new articles continues to mirror the areas of law in which Mr. Prowse has extensive experience and knowledge. There are six new articles on civil litigation, among them articles on the judicial system, mortgage fraud, the anatomy of a lawsuit, and managing your attorney if you are involved in a lawsuit.

Consistent with his certification as a Family Law Specialist by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, Mr. Prowse has also written new articles on the difference between legal separation and divorce, children’s testimony in disputed custody cases, and senior divorce. The children’s testimony during a divorce article appears to be a very hot topic within today’s ever changing family law community.

These new articles bring the web site to a total of fifty pages of practical reference data currently utilized by web resources, as well as individuals in search of easy to understand legal information.

“It never ceases to amaze me the manner in which our visitors utilize our on-site search tool to locate information within our web site. It certainly is a pleasure to be of service to those in the community needing legal assistance,” says Prowse.

Attorney Stanley has been practicing law for over thirty years. Stan is a graduate of J.D. Harvard Law School ’73, M.A. Columbia University and B.A. Yale University. Stan has also served as a Mediator, Judge Pro-Tem and is a Certified Family Law Specialist, Licensed to practice in California, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Georgia.

Learn more at: http://www.stanprowse.com .

MEDIA CONTACT:
Stanley D. Prowse
The Law Office of Stanley D. Prowse
760-438-8460
info@stanprowse.com.

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“I am excited to have Stephen and Patrick join VLP’s Real Estate group. Stephen is well known in the San Francisco real estate industry having completed numerous acquisitions of Class A office buildings and complex capital markets transactions for some of the country’s largest real estate investors. Stephen also has robust experience in the affordable housing industry that will expand that specialty practice group. Patrick brings to VLP comprehensive real estate experience including deep expertise representing clients on distressed debt acquisitions and complicated financing workouts. His background in investment banking gives him a better understanding of capital markets, something important to our clients. The addition of Stephen and Patrick makes VLP formidable in the Bay Area real estate market ensuring that we provide our clients with representation that is second to none,” said Byron Rodriguez, chair of VLP’s Real Estate practice group.

Mr. Wright’s practice includes all aspects of real estate transactional law, including development, acquisition, joint ventures, commercial financing, leasing, dispositions, entity structuring, partnership and limited liability company agreements and construction involving office, industrial, retail, multi-family residential, high-end residential and mixed use properties. His clients include prominent real estate investment firms, public agencies and financial institutions. In addition, Mr. Wright has extensive experience representing affordable housing developers in all aspects of affordable housing transactions. Mr. Wright was recognized by the 2010 US edition of Legal 500 for his real estate practice. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lewis & Clark College.

“With its impressive tax and real estate practices, VLP provides an excellent platform to represent our clients in all aspects of their business transactions. I am looking forward to working with the VLP team as we expand our real estate practice,” stated Mr. Wright.

Mr. Valentino has almost 20 years of comprehensive commercial real estate advisory experience, including extensive experience in debt acquisitions, commercial real estate workouts, real estate secured lending, leasing and joint venture partnerships. Mr. Valentino’s prior experience includes Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, a leading San Diego real estate law firm, and he served as general counsel of a California based real estate investment firm active in the acquisition of distressed assets. He also previously served as a senior professional with several investment banks focusing on public finance, mergers and acquisitions and venture financings, and began his career in New York with Merrill Lynch Capital Market’s Public Finance Investment Banking Group. Mr. Valentino received his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York, at Albany.

“For complex real estate transactions my clients need a top tier legal team to help them execute their business strategy. My new partners at VLP bring that expertise to the table without the big firm billing structure,” stated Mr. Valentino.

About VLP’s Real Estate Practice:
VLP’s Real Estate practice group represents real estate owners, developers and investors in a broad array of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of assets, commercial and tax credit financings, distressed assets, joint ventures, loan workouts and recovery, leasing, tax, development and construction. We offer our clients depth of experience with a variety of property types including office, affordable and community housing, hotel, multi-family, retail, industrial and condominiums.

Our real estate expertise provides clients with unrivaled client service and lower rates. With extensive experience in all aspects of real estate, we are able to help clients develop strategies that suit their business objectives and risk tolerance.

More information: http://www.vlplawgroup.com/PracticeDetail.aspx?pg_code=BPREAL .

About VLP:
Founded in 2008, VLP is a business and transactional law firm that delivers top quality, efficient and cost-effective legal services. Our practice reaches across many industry sectors, including high tech, life sciences, angel and venture capital financings, clean tech, retail, consumer product, commercial lending and real estate. VLP has continued its strong growth, and in recent months has added noted attorneys from firms on the West and East coasts who believe VLP’s unique, client-oriented and cost-effective model is the best platform for their practice. Our partners are regularly recognized by their peers as outstanding attorneys, and the firm has been recognized as a top company for its promotion of quality of life in the workplace.

VLP partners represent clients that vary in size from individual executives and early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our client base includes public and private corporations, venture capital investors, private equity funds, educational institutions, nonprofits and individuals. We provide general corporate, licensing, contract, intellectual property protection and counseling, securities regulation, financing, employment, merger and acquisition, real estate, tax and other legal services.

VLP is a geographically distributed firm of highly qualified attorneys with outstanding credentials and an average of over 10 years of experience. We have no central office, and our technology platform allows us to collaborate easily and to operate with a small, highly specialized staff. Our lean model means that we can provide sophisticated, focused services to our clients, and we can do it at competitive rates.

For more information about VLP, visit http://www.vlplawgroup.com .

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The new integration is seamless and allows users to quickly initiate searches from within KMCIS CaseAware(R) application to identify borrowers in default that are active military personnel, helping adhere to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) of 2003. The SCRA requires that servicers and foreclosure attorneys follow certain processes before foreclosing on an individual who has active status in the United States military.

“Our integration with CaseAware(R) adds an efficient check and balance to the foreclosure process workflow,” said Scott Stoddard, CEO of Quandis. “There are a number of moving parts and parties involved in the proper completion of a foreclosure; making sure servicers and law firms comply with the SCRA is critical. In recent months, companies have been hit with steep fines for incorrectly foreclosing on active military personnel. By and large, companies fail to comply with the SCRA because most searches are performed manually on the Department of Defense’s website, which is tedious, time consuming and prone to exposure.”

With the simple click of a button, CaseAware(R) users are now able to easily initiate an automated status search directly from within their existing workflow that instantly returns accurate results along with event triggers that determine the next task. Quandis imports detailed reporting on all searches back into CaseAware(R) that time and date stamps the official status report provided on the Department of Defense’s Web site.

Dan Cannon, COO at KMCIS, says: “We have been told by the many industry law firms we serve that not complying with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act sets the stage for lawsuits and the potential to rescind foreclosure transactions. When searches are done manually by processors, an element of risk is introduced due to the potential for user errors. With our new interface to Quandis’ military search service, however, KMCIS’ clients now have the ability to process their Department of Defense searches in an automated fashion, thereby reducing the time and effort to complete searches and the potential for inaccuracies. An integration with Quandis simply made a lot of business sense to deliver these efficiencies to our customer base.”

Combined, the integration between Quandis and KMCIS bridges the risk gap of improperly foreclosing on borrowers in default who are active military service members and are thus protected from foreclosure by the SCRA.

In addition to law firms, servicers and banks can also utilize Quandis’ military search service to perform automated bulk searches on loan portfolios. Clients can use the service as a standalone solution or as integrated with their existing servicing platform.

Quandis will be holding discussion times with interested parties at the MBA’s Servicing Convention and Exposition at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, FL, February 21 – 24. To arrange a meeting with Quandis, contact Laura Hadley at 949-382-1178 or via email lhadley@quandis.com.

About Quandis:
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California, Quandis is a default management software provider specializing in Web-based solutions for the lending industry. Quandis’ solutions include foreclosure process automation, short sale portals, skip tracing systems, a valuations hub, military search services, bankruptcy status searches, collection solutions, as well custom application development. The company’s clients range from lenders to banks, servicers, foreclosure attorneys, outsourced service providers, and agents and brokers. For more information, please visit www.quandis.com or call (949) 525-9000.

About KMCIS:
KMC Information Systems, L.C. (“KMCIS”) is a St. Louis Missouri-based partnership founded in 2004 and dedicated to implementing quality solutions for the Legal, Mortgage, and Title industries. The CaseAware(R) product suite offered by KMCIS is the leading case management software for the default servicing industry. CaseAware(R) Manage is a complete and extremely configurable legal case management system developed specifically for default services law practices and foreclosure trustee firms. The system includes a dynamic workflow engine, automated fees and costs, and an integrated document generation, storage and retrieval system. CaseAware(R) Integrate provides automated, two-way transmission of data between a trustee or law firm’s case management / accounting systems and the prevalent default services industry systems. For more information, please visit www.kmcis.com .

Media Contact:
Joe Bowerbank
Profundity Communications, Inc.
949.378.9685
jbowerbank@profunditymarketing.com.

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In early 2011, a Workers Compensation Judge found Officer James Greco innocent of the erroneous charges by Nassau County that he was defrauding the Workers Compensation system. Subsequently, his termination as a Senior Corrections Officer in the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department was overturned by an arbitrator. It was concluded that Officer Greco be awarded a three-quarters disability retirement from the New York State retirement system, in addition to retroactive back pay.

HISTORY:

Officer Greco had suffered a career-ending injury due to an assault in 2007 by an inmate. Initially the Sheriff’s Department’s own doctor deemed him injured and placed him on light duty status. Unfaltering, the Sheriff’s Department returned Greco to full duty post anyway, entirely aware that his performance would be less than capable. If Officer Greco had accepted this subjective and irrational decision, his safety and the safety of his fellow officers would be at risk.

After Greco refused to recognize the Department’s ploy to place him at a full duty post, he was suspended twice: once for a week; then again for two weeks; and was then ultimately terminated. After termination, Greco struggled to keep his house, where he lives with his wife and two young daughters. Pursuant to an arbitrator’s ruling, it was legally documented that the Sheriff’s Department did not adhere to its own policies and procedures, and that Greco was indeed, wrongfully terminated. Officer Greco should have been reinstated at his original title, but the Sheriff’s Department refused to do so, violating the arbitrator’s ruling that was two years in the making. Throughout this time, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department recklessly squandered thousands of tax payer’s dollars for needless legal fees.

Greco himself, spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees for almost four years, while attempting to prove his innocence. The family also faced losing their home several times however, at no time did Officer Greco accept any disbursement or settlement through the Worker’s Compensation Fund, other than for medical treatment. A neurologist’s diagnosis of Officer Greco’s injuries concluded that if another assault on him took place, the consequences could leave him a paraplegic.

While on active duty at the Nassau County Correctional Facility, Officer Greco became a staunch safety advocate for his fellow corrections officers and inmates alike. After discovering a proliferating and hazardous mold infestation in the correction facility, he promptly reported it to the Department. When no admission or action was taken by the Department, he reported it to OSHA. Following OSHA’s investigation and confirmation of the massive mold infestation, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department began to retaliate against Greco by way of discrimination and consistent persecution.

According to the Sheriff Officers Association Union Acting President, Brian Sullivan, this is not the only case where a corrections officer has been terminated and unjustifiably denied retirement status. According to Sullivan, other officers had also been advised by Union officials that nothing could be done about the Department’s prejudicial practices, which are common daily occurrences at the facility, and commented that the Sheriff’s Department “does what it wants.”

A female corrections officer at the same location was injured on the job in 2001. She was subsequently fired in 2004, but was legally awarded three-quarters retirement pay by New York State. To this day, she is still battling the “system” trying to receive her retirement status from the department. Brian Sullivan went on to say that Nassau County’s legal counsel for the Nassau County Correctional Center, Elizabeth Loconsolo, stated to him that “a retired Sheriff’s identification card is a badge of honor and that Officer Greco is not worthy of it.” Current Sheriff Sposato also commented to Sullivan that, “if Greco wants an I.D, tell him to come back to work.”

Officer Greco is adamant about not surrendering to defeat by an institution that governs itself and does not adhere to New York State legal decrees. He is determined to set a precedent, whatever it takes, so that future officers will not have to succumb to this unacceptable, bullying treatment.

Given the financial gaffe that Nassau County is presently in, does the Sheriff’s Department have carte blanche to frivolously spend tax payer’s money for attorney and court fees simply to feed their ego when losing a legal judgment? It is obvious that we have a corrupt and anarchistic regime operating clandestinely behind the walls of this correctional facility. Officer Greco is now returning to the front line yet one more time, to rightfully attain his retirement status.

Media coverage regarding the questionable behavior within the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department has been an ongoing endeavor by The New York Times and Newsday; however, it has been an effort in futility.

More information: Rachele 516.524.4833.

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According to the Journal of Correctional Education, the U.S. incarcerates over 2.3 million persons, a number equal to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. Each of these 2.3 million prisoners costs American taxpayers $32,000 to $40,000 each year for food and housing. Of those 2.3 million, around 800,000 will be released each year and most, that is 70% to 85%, will return to prison within 5 years of release. The exception is prisoners who receive an education while in prison.

According to the Journal of Correctional Education, of prisoners with an AA degree, only 13.7% will return to prison, of those with a Bachelor’s degree 5.6%, and those with a Master’s degree 0%. The Institute for Higher Education Policy calculates the cost of educating one prisoner to be $2,000 to $3,782 per year, much lower than the $40,000 per year outlay for incarceration.

While educating prisoners is an odd concept to champion, the fact that the U.S. spends $30.1 billion each year to build more prisons should give all Americans pause. This is money siphoned off from local community colleges, state universities, defense, and much needed public work projects, not to mention every American’s wallet.

With the January 2012 publication of “Education Behind Bars,” a comprehensive resource delineating the financial and social benefits of educating prisoners will finally be available.

For prison education news as it breaks and an ongoing dialogue about the merits of educating prisoners, head over to http://PrisonEducation.com or email Christopher Zoukis directly at ChrisZoukis@Gmail.com.

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