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Alternatives program saves veterans from incarceration by Vickie Vértiz
graduation certificates during an afternoon ceremony at the Riverside Historic Courthouse. It was the third class to graduate since January 2012, when the program began. The program could not have a more timely arrival, given
through grass, etc. - at least, these were images my mind produced according to these sounds. After a second play of the Audiojack, we were asked to write down the story our imagination had sparked, and after the third, we had time to refine our stories. I had thought about a girl in 19th century France watching a guy running away from someone. Secretly, she folPlease see page 4
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the Obama Administration policy move on August 7 to improve the Department of Veteran Affairs. Veterans make up one in 10 inmates in U.S. jails. A survey in 2004 by the Bureau of Justice Please see page 2
Audiojack: A breakthrough in education which takes our imagination to another level by Jennifer schlueter When my friend invited me to an event at the Sonos Studio in LA to experience a sound movie, I didn’t know what to expect. After some welcoming drinks and snacks, we, approximately 40(?) guests, chose our seats in a semicircle around Audiojack creator and founder David Tobin. Each chair was equipped with a blindfold, a pen, and a notepad. David then gave us a short introduction of what was about to happen,
asked us to turn our phones off, relax, put the blindfolds on, and focus on our imagination so we could create a story along with the sound movie. As soon as the room got quiet, I listened to my first Audiojack - an “audio-based movie with no words, no music, no video, only sounds,” as the website describes it. I heard rain, doors squeaking, footsteps, horses trotting over cobble stones, someone running
California corrections officer of Riverside convicted in jury trial for filing a false claim Late August 4th, in the afternoon, Jose Tavares Hernandez, AKA: Jose H. Tavares, 41, of Riverside, was found guilty of one count of filing a false claim against the United States following a jury day trial before U.S. District Judge Josephine S. Tucker. According to the Indictment, around August 5, 2009, Jose T. Hernandez, a California Corrections Officer for the State of California, filed a false 2008 Federal Income Tax Return Form 1040X for himself and his wife with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The false Form 1040X, falsely reported $1,858,323 in federal income tax withheld and claimed a refund of $452,615 above a previous false refund he received of $769,963. The first false refund claimed for $769,963 was based upon a false OID-based tax return that he filed in March 2009 as a customer in a large OID scheme. Jose Hernandez was one of the customers of the OID schemes, approximately 15 of which were charged as part of the Old Quest/DLFRA set of 55 defendants in the related Old Quest cases of United States v. Arturo Ruiz, et al., SA CR 11209-JST, and United States v.
Riverside Courthouse -Photo by Terry Miller
A dozen military veterans successfully graduated Friday, August 1, from a program in Riverside County that provides alternatives to incarceration. The program is called Veterans Court and those who completed the program received
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