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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
2) Blindsided
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Sisterhood series volume 22
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"When Maggie Spritzer, former editor-in-chief of the Post and an honorary member of the Sisterhood, arrives with a new mission in mind, the Vigilantes are soon gathering in their war room once more. While catching up on each other's lives, they plan a brilliant campaign against a duo of corrupt judges running a moneymaking racket that sends young offenders to brutal boot camps, often on trumped-up charges. Their enemies are powerful and ruthless,...
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Issue brief volume 16-27
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Colorado Legislative Council
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2016.
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English
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Issue brief volume 12-14
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Colorado Legislative Council
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2012.
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English
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Colorado Legislative Council
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2012.
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English
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This memorandum provides information regarding crimes against at-risk juveniles and adults. Specifically, the memorandum includes recent data on the total number of crimes committed against at-risk persons and any surcharges required upon conviction. It also provides a summary of charges and penalties for crimes against at-risk persons.
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Abusive Caregiver Taskforce
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2010.
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English
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The Abusive Caregiver Taskforce was legislatively created to study and make recommendations on the development and implementation of a Database that contains the names of caregivers who have had a substantiated allegation of exploitation, mistreatment, neglect, physical abuse, or sexual abuse of a person with a developmental disability.
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2024.
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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Colorado probation research in brief volume 2015/3
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State Court Administrator's Office, Colorado Division of Probation Services
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2015.
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English
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Issue brief volume 20-26
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Colorado Legislative Council
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2020.
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English
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Colorado's Adult Protective Services (APS) system, first established in 1983, protects at-risk adults who, because of mental or physical ability, are unable to obtain services or other wise protect their own health, safety, and welfare.