EMCNAMARA

** EMCNAMARA **
**State** - Maryland


 * Political Party - ** Independent

C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger [|http://dutch.house.gov]
 * Congress Person I most agree with - **

1. Criminal Justice - I believe this is a very well needed issue, and there should not be criminals roaming the streets. I think that there needs to be places where people should be locked up for committing crimes. In Maryland they have many departments and services in which criminals will be punished for their actions.
 * Three Issues Most Important To Me - **

2. Environment and Energy - I think that we should live in a clean and healthy environment and not have to worry about all the pollution and running out of resources which take millions of years to produce. I think that we need to protect the world we live in and not destroy it. We need new ways to get things done without using air pollutants like oil and gasoline. Also recycling and renewing all of our items and not filling up landfills, which also destroy our Earth. We need alternative fuel sources, and become a next to complete "Green" planet.

3. Health and Safety - I think that everyone has right to health and safety. Everyone should be exposed to a healthy and safe environment wherever they are, and Maryland also believes in that, and they have a system called MOSH Advisory Board, which has rules and regulations to prevent disease and accidents in every place that people work in Maryland.

**Info on my bill** - My bill is about the restrictions of electronic devices and activities that prisoners are allowed to use or have access to. Different levels of criminals will have different privileges. The small crimes will have more privileges opposed to the serial killers who will have next to no privileges. People should support this bill because you don't want the criminals to be having a good time in prison, and when their time is up they go and commit more crimes because it is all fun and games in jail. You want people to be terrified to go to prison, and to commit crimes. If prisons were harsher than they are now, then the criminal rate would decrease. My bill is HB 87 5 Facts important to Mock Congress Voting - **

1. At the University of Maryland many students just got a Ph.D. in criminal justice and criminology. 2. The University of Maryland has a Criminal Justice Doctoral program, which is ranked number one out of thirty-two. 3. "Persons under age 18 who are charged with a crime generally are within the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system." 4. Although under 18, kids are sometimes treated as adults, if crimes are bad enough. 5. The crime rates have gone down recently.

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