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	Witness Protection Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Witness protection is the process in which witnesses, such as those who testify in criminal trials, are protected against intimidation before their testimony or criminal retaliation after.
		The federal program is called WITSEC (the Federal Witness Protection Program) and was founded in the late 1960s by Gerald Shur when he was in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the United States Department of Justice.
		Most witnesses are protected by the U.S. Marshals Service, while protection of incarcerated witnesses is the duty of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witness_protection_program (276 words)

	Witness Protection Program Act Annual Report 2003-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Protection given under subsection 14(2) is on a cost-recovery basis including the related expenses of RCMP personnel.
		The number of instances in which protection was refused by witnesses this year was 11, which is close to last year's figure of 13.
		The main reasons cited by witnesses for refusing to enter the Program were that they found it too restrictive and that they were not committed to leaving their extended family, friends and loved ones behind.
	www.sgc.gc.ca /publications/policing/wppa2004_e.asp (704 words)

	F.E.A.R. -- Witness Protection Program - gravano
		Because the identities of the protected witnesses were often kept secret by the government, neither their neighbors nor the local police had any idea about their violent pasts.
		The program is hidden so carefully under the veil of national security that even the U.S. Congress, charged with oversight of the program, hasn't held a hearing on the program in 14 years, despite substantial questions raised about it in audits, news reports and civil complaints.
		Witnesses in the program who are unhappy with the results say their criticism is often muzzled by the government.
	www.fear.org /witnss1.html (3137 words)

	Victim Witness Program : About the Victim Witness Program - United States Attorney's Office : Western District of New ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Contact Us The Department of Justice Victim Witness program was established as a result of the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and the Victim Rights Clarification Act of 1997.
		Witnesses waiting to testify wait in an area separate and away from the defendant.
		Where a victim or witness requests it, the Victim-Witness Staff can write a letter to the victim or witness=s employer attesting to the fact that the victim or witness was required to be in court.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/nyw/victim_witness/html/vw_program.htm (1226 words)

	USATODAY.com - Witness protection program to add terrorism case work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — The witness protection program is entering a new phase, with people who testify in terrorism cases expected to join the Mafia henchmen, motorcycle gang members and drug dealers who receive changed identities courtesy of the government.
		Witness protection is offered to people who can provide key testimony and whose safety could be jeopardized because of their cooperation with prosecutors.
		Witness families are paid an average of about $60,000 a year until they get jobs in their new communities.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-03-19-terror-witnesses_x.htm (853 words)

	Big task for witness protection program - Jul. 02, 2003
		DESPITE a limited budget, the government will continue to give protective custody to all witnesses under the witness protection program (WPP) until the termination of all cases where their testimonies are crucial.
		Luyon said the program was exerting much effort to protect the 58 "high-risk witnesses" involved in eight big kidnapping cases and one rebellion charge now being tried in various courts.
		He said the witnesses were classified as such because of the danger posed to their lives after deciding to testify for the government.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2003/jul/02/reg_5-1.htm (500 words)

	Witness protection program gets funds
		The city program started in 1994 after a Hazelwood resident, Verna Robinson, 30, was killed before she could testify against a man who eventually was convicted of another killing.
		She said 25 witnesses were enrolled, with the average stay being a year and a half.
		The average cost of protecting a witness in the city program is about $25 a day.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20020212witness0212p6.asp (400 words)

	County creates witness protection program
		The creation of the program comes at a time when Cincinnati's homicides are on the rise.
		The program will focus of helping people who have been threatened by people who have been charged with intimidation, and are involved in homicide cases.
		He added that the county program will not be like the federal witness protection program.
	www.enquirer.com /midday/07/07212004_News_mday_witness21.html (437 words)

	Crime and Misconduct Commission - Responsibilities / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The CMC administers the Witness Protection Program for Queensland.
		The CMC's Witness Protection Officers are primarily sworn officers of the QPS.
		The Witness Protection Program commenced in August 1987 during the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry into police corruption when it became necessary to protect several important witnesses who were able to give direct evidence of crime and corruption.
	www.cmc.qld.gov.au /RESPPROTECT.html (355 words)

	Winston-Salem Journal \| Witness-protection program in danger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A new report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog, however, says that witness safety could be compromised if the government does not reverse a steady decline in the number of marshals assigned to the program, even as the number of witnesses and family members granted new identities has topped 17,000 and continues to rise.
		In the past eight years, the number of federal agents responsible for protecting witnesses has fallen by nearly 25 percent, the department's inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, said in a report yesterday.
		The Bush administration projects that there will be nearly 17,700 people in the program by September 2006, including 120 new witnesses in the government spending year that will end on Sept. 30 and another 188 the next year.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781579449&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161 (558 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Former mob boss leaves witness protection program
		Former Mafia boss Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme has left the federal witness protection program and has been seen recently at a restaurant in Brookline that was one of his old haunts.
		Salemme, 70, who pleaded guilty to participating in eight murders, cooperated with federal investigators and was a star witness for the government in the trial of corrupt FBI agent John Connolly Jr.
		As a condition of his release into the witness protection program, he was ordered not to return to his old life, which centered on Boston and Rhode Island.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/16/former_mob_boss_leaves_witness_protection_program?mode=PF (357 words)

	Marshals Service Cuts Witness Protection Staff (washingtonpost.com)
		Despite a growing number of participants, the U.S. Marshals Service is cutting the staff assigned to protect witnesses, one of several problems that could affect witness security, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported yesterday.
		In the past eight years, the number of federal personnel responsible for protecting witnesses has dropped by nearly 25 percent, Fine said.
		Witness families are paid an average of about $60,000 a year until they find jobs in their new communities.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34886-2005Mar14.html?... (408 words)

	1995-03-23 / Gray: Witness Protection Program Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Witness protection is one of the most useful and effective law enforcement tools we have in the fight against crime.
		The proposed changes will help ensure that both applicants who enter the program and the RCMP, who operate the program, have a clear understanding of their rights and obligations, and the extent and scope of the benefits and protection to be provided.
		In keeping with the government's program of fiscal restraint, these changes to the RCMP Source Witness Protection Program will be funded out of existing resources.
	www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca /publications/Speeches/19950323_e.asp (528 words)

	D0J admits Roland Ulla to Witness Protection Program
		The D0J witness protection admitted today into its custody Roland Ulla, the last kidnap victim to escape out of the 21 abducted by Abu Sayaff from the Sipadan Dive Resort in Palau, Sabah, Malaysia three years ago.
		The barangay executive, who had signed a MOA with the DOJ witness protection program, when interviewed said he is willing to risk his life.
		The witness and some of his barangay tanod were confronted in Tambong, Gloria Oriental Mindoro by M.Sgt. Donald Caigas of the 204th AFP Infantry on the night before the two human rights members were found dead.
	www.doj.gov.ph /news_06-23-03.html (467 words)

	PM - Victoria's witness protection program to be investigated
		BRIAN HARDIMAN: The first one we commenced was the witness protection study, and that will look at the policies, practices and procedures of witness protection and how witness protection actually works in practice.
		Now that investigation is a fair way down the track and it's revealed in fact that there are a range of other witnesses who are not in the formal witness protection programme that equally need attention.
		And to look at world's best practice, not just in relation to witness protection programmes themselves, but to relevant laws overseas which in some cases actually have a form of coercive witness protection programme where people can be forced for their own protection into a programme.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1260011.htm (664 words)

	A Different Kind of Witness Protection Program
		The Witness Project is based on an educational model first developed at the University of Arkansas in 1991 in response to racial disparities in breast cancer.
		When one of our survivors witnesses, she draws upon a longstanding tradition in the Black church and shares her experience of overcoming cancer through faith and God's grace.
		There are 24 similar Witness Project sites across the country, and evaluation research from the individual programs shows that women who attend a session report significant increases in mammography use and breast self-examination.
	www.mountsinai.org /msh_news/msh_witness_program.html (464 words)

	Witness protection program faces challenges - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		At the same time, the number of witnesses and their family members has climbed by 12 percent.
		A separate study cited by the Marshals Service found that about 17 percent of protected witnesses with criminal pasts have been charged with new crimes.
		Other issues Fine raised include low morale among marshals in the program, mainly because of low pay, and failure by the Marshals Service to ensure that government employees and contractors who work in the witness protection program completed secrecy agreements that forbade them to talk about their work.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7184047 (833 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Mob boss out of witness protection program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Former New England mob boss Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, who became a government witness and helped prosecutors convict a corrupt FBI agent, has been thrown out of the witness protection program, his attorney said Tuesday.
		He entered the witness protection program after being released from prison in March 2003.
		Salemme's lawyer, Stephen Weymouth, planned to ask that he be released on bail as he awaits trial, but a court hearing on Salemme's detention was postponed Tuesday when Weymouth learned that he had been removed from the witness protection program.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/11/23/mob_boss_out_of_witness_protection_program (289 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Program, also sometimes referred to as WITSEC or the Witness Protection Program, is one weapon in the war on crime that has taken even greater significance since September 11, 2001.
		Traditionally, the Program has been used to protect witnesses and their families in cases involving organized crime, narcotics, motorcycle gangs, prison gangs, and public corruption.
		Beyond judicial protection, there is one notable statutory protective shield known as the federal Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, which provides for the punishment of anyone who tampers with a witness, victim, or informant.22 This protection begins from the reporting stage of a crime to the conclusion of the trial testimony.
	www.blackwaterusa.com /btw2004/articles/0628hide.html (1431 words)

	Amazon.com: Witness Protection (1999): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I enjoyed this film and its unique angle on what the witness protection program means in the lives of one particular family.
		Witness Protection is one of the few movies that focuses on the guys behind the scenes.
		Tom Sizemore plays the father, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio the mother and with their two children they spend five days in the Witness Protection safe-house where, instead of the family coming together, they are slowly ripped apart by unspoken anger, fear and terror.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0783116799?v=glance (1627 words)

	The Heartland Institute - Does Public Education Need a Witness Protection Program? - by David W. Kirkpatrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Spring 2004, the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity initiated the Educators Witness Protection Program Web site to allow individual educators, taxpayers, and others to report instances of alleged wasteful spending in the public school system without being subject to harassment or reprisals.
		The need for some kind of protection for witnesses to school excesses was highlighted recently in Casselberry, Florida by reports of how a parent who complained about the cruelty of a special education teacher was intimidated into silence by a threatening letter from the teacher union.
		The Educators Witness Protection Program is located at http://www.educatorswitnessprotectionprogram.com.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=16172 (630 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Additionally, Shur and WITSEC faced infighting among the federal agencies that most used the program, notably, the FBI, IRS and DEA; and the physical protection of witnesses and their families was often badly handled by a poorly organized U.S. Marshals Service.
		There is some fascinating stuff here: the early fight against the mob, the Witness X tragic story (a woman who tells her own story), and a funny sequence exposing the...
		While some have been extremely critical of the purpose of the witness protection program over the years, this is no glamorous escape for criminals who would be otherwise incarcerated for their entire lives.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553582437 (1523 words)

	Witness Protection Program
		As the program now functions, that decision is left up to a witness or a detective handling the witness.
		Whitehouse's comments, his strongest about the program since Rivera died, come after the girl was shot execution-style outside her Elmwood house before testifying in the murder trial of 19-year-old Charles Pona.
		Vespia has said the police should be given funds to monitor endangered witnesses who refuse protection, which he and other experts described as a common foil of protection programs, along with the unpredictability of attackers.
	www.ellerman.org /PolicePolicy/witness_protection_program_fails.htm (742 words)

	Victim Witness Program Introduction - United States Attorney's Office : Western District of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the responsibilities of citizenship for those who have knowledge about the commission of a crime is to serve as witnesses at the criminal trial or one of the other hearings held in connection with the criminal prosecution.
		The complete cooperation and truthful testimony of all witnesses are essential to the proper determination of guilt or innocence in a criminal case.
		Our office is concerned that victims and witnesses of crime are treated fairly throughout their contact with the criminal justice system.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/nyw/victim_witness.htm (266 words)

	Hamilton County Works Towards Witness Protection Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As homicide rates in the city continue to rise with nearly half of them unsolved, there's a new plan in the works to protect witnesses to the crimes.
		Hamilton County prosecutors are hammering out an assistance program that could become a model for the rest of the state.
		"It's not a witness protection program in the classic sense where their identities are changed and they're sent to live in another state.
	www.wcpo.com /news/2003/local/12/26/witness.html (464 words)

	F.E.A.R. -- Witness Protection Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bill Moushey spent a year investigating the witness protection program, through the Freedom of Information Act and through interviews with protected witnesses and government officials.
		Note: The "Protected Witness" series is copyrighted and should not be disseminated without permission from the publisher, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
		Main story for day 1 of the series: "Deals With The Devil", about federally protected witness Salvatore Gravano (witness against John Gotti) and his cushy deal with the federal government
	www.fear.org /witness.html (211 words)

	Witness protection program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Witness Protection Program is established by the Witness Protection which in turn sets out the manner which the U.S. Attorney General may provide for the relocation and of a witness or potential witness of the federal government or for a state government in official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offences.
		The stories of people who have been accepted into the Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) are interesting, sometimes frightening, and frequently funny.
		Witness protection programs in America: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hund...
	www.freeglossary.com /Witness_Protection_Program (341 words)

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