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Our heroes come to the aid of a modern-day Robin Hood, Will Parker, who's taking refuge in the mountains of Wyoming. Hotheaded Will is thrown in jail for violating the local game laws. Busting out, Parker scurries to the hills, hotly pursued by the Mesquiteers and the law. Running against time, the threesome try to capture the corrupt politician Balsinger who's responsible for the recession and save Will from the gun-happy policemen and townspeople....
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The last state in the Rocky Mountains to adopt Prohibition, Wyoming failed to stop the sale and manufacture of illegal liquor. The Legislature created a new law enforcement agency, but two State Directors were fired for graft and bootlegging. Adding to the states problems, many county officials did not enforce Prohibition laws. Prohibition significantly impacted state politics and elections.
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"Wyoming has no separate juvenile justice system, as most states do, so a juvenile can accumulate a criminal record in adult courts for such minor offenses as smoking in school or skateboarding on a public sidewalk. The film recounts the stories of youth who have been in the system and shows instances of juveniles shackled, over-medicated, and held in treatment facilities over a hundred miles from their families for minor offenses that could have...
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An overview of the United States court system, describing its basis in the Constitution, the structure of the federal and state court systems (including trial courts, appeals courts, and supreme appeals court), role of the federal Supreme Court, and the state courts system. Follows hypothetical civil and criminal cases.
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Main Street Wyoming volume 726
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State lands : issue of diversity: At statehood, Wyoming was given 4.2 million acres of trust lands. Of that total, 663,416 acres of those lands have since been sold, as permitted by law. In recent years, the management, leasing and sales of the lands have become a political football. MAIN STREET, WYOMING travels to the eastern slopes of the Big Horns to show the diversity of lands owned by the state of Wyoming. From Northern Wyoming College instructor...
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Across the USA, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religions. This film discusses the struggles of three indigenous communities to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, strip-mining, development and New Age religious practitioners.
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Main Street Wyoming volume 705
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Third Party Politics: Throughout U.S. history, new political parties have challenged the status quo. This year is no exception in Wyoming's election ballot containing the names of four political parties: Libertarian, Natural Law, Republican and Democratic. Join guests Judy Raymond, state party chairman of the Natural Law party; and Dennis Brossman, chairman for the Libertarian party, and political scientists to learn more about "Third Party Politics",...
19) Own Your Data
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Wyoming chronicle volume 1210
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To raise awareness of data rights, Brittany Kaiser co-founded the Own Your Rights Foundation to promote digital literacy education. She is also the priamary subject of the Netflix Orginal documentary The Great Hack and the author of Targeted. -- from cover
