Mary Gay Scanlon: “I strongly urge your committee to increase the PFC to fairly and efficiently meet these funding needs.”

I support H.R. 3497, the Medal of Sacrifice Act, which would award medals to honor those who lose their lives while serving as public safety officers. I encourage my colleagues to support it, too.

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.