You think I've come up with some good ideas and would 
   like to see some of these changes enacted into law???  It 
   CAN be done; but, only with all of us working together...
   Unlike many causes, I don't ask you for monetary donations.  
   Instead, I ask for your time and involvement (which is often 
   even harder to get; but, it's critical to all of this ever 
   "getting off the ground...")  Like you, I'm only one person 
   and there's only so much that I can do on my own.  Like any 
   other effort, however, people can accomplish a lot more by 
   working together than all of them could by working seperately.
   Here are some of the the things you can do to help all of this 
   become a reality:
        I hear from a lot of legislators and judges who express 
   their private support; but, also, a great deal of concern 
   about their political futures, if they were to make such 
   support public.  They need to hear from you and know that 
   you will support them if they were to publicly endorse these 
   ideas.
        You can call in to your favorite talk radio shows, 
   especially when the topic relates to either the problems 
   associated with our current criminal justice system or 
   issues which relate to our liberties being eroded in an 
   attempt to curb crime, and tell people to check out this 
   web site for an alternative which would ONLY affect the 
   convicted criminal.  If pressed for details, it's usually 
   best to simply ask the host to interview me, since it's 
   extremely difficult to summarize these proposals in the 
   couple of minutes or so which most callers are given...  
   I prefer doing shows which are more geared towards an 
   "information" format and with hosts who don't try to turn 
   such topics into "a circus."
        When you hear of good prospective "test-cases," you 
   can contact the person involved and suggest that they 
   might want to take a look at this web site.  The basic 
   criteria is that the person have no history of niolent 
   crime and can afford to cover the cost of bringing us in 
   to work the case (there's a lot more involved; but, the 
   rest is pretty irrelevent if these met...)  Until I have 
   a much larger staff pool, I'd prefer to avoid cases which 
   might be too "high profile," though.  even though such 
   cases are VERY tempting, we really aren't ready for them, 
   at this time.
        If you're acquainted with any attornies, suggest that 
   they visit this site.  Right now, we are desperately short 
   of attornies who are willing to assist defendants in their 
   request that corporal sentencing be accepted in lieu of a 
   prison term.
        Most importantly, I'm desperately short of staff to work 
   waiver cases.  The primary requirements for training are: a 
   strong desire to help people, good listening and "people 
   skills," enough free time to train and to occassionally be 
   out of town for a couple of days, have no felony convictions, 
   and ABSOLUTELY NO "bdsm," tendancies.  While I prefer people 
   who are both willing to cross-train and who would (at such 
   time C.A.S. laws are passed) interested in working full-time, 
   this isn't a major factor.  If you feel a certain amount of 
   trepidation at the thought of having to be present during or 
   inflicting this type of sentence, don't let that deter you -- 
   you're the type of person that I'm looking for and a major 
   portion of the training is intended primarily to bring you to 
   a point where you'd be able to handle it...  Don't "disqualify" 
   yourself -- I look at the "overall picture" in deciding whether 
   to accept a person for training; and, some of the things which 
   you might consider to be "liabilities," I might see as assets...
   For more information about training, please visit applica.htm