January 20, 2025 Statement from President Joe Biden  I am issuing pardons to Gerald G. Lundergan and Ernest William Cromartie. I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. COMMUTATION Leonard Peltier The President is commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard […]

NO DATA COLLECTED! Here at Fair Shake, we take FREEDOM very seriously. We believe that the fundamental human right for self-determination includes having the FREEDOM to explore, discover, learn, evaluate, decide and accept, reject or simply ponder….without tracking, nudging, algorithm-generation or pseudo-scientific excuses for surveillance and control. I listen to what people ask for, and […]

Self-Determination Theory, As I See It       Sue Kastensen Self-determination: the process by which a person controls their own life. (Oxford Languages as accessed through Google. Sorry, they offer no link.)   Self-determination refers to a person’s ability to choose; to make decisions and feel in control. The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) […]

First Step Act: Risk Assessment and Earned Release Credits   The first ‘book’ below is the federal Bureau of Prisons PATTERN survey to assess a persons ‘risk of recidivism’. The survey is not available on this page, but the scoring tool is: https://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/pattern.jsp The second ‘book’ is the federal Bureau of Prisons First Step Act […]

Welcome to the Fair Shake Personal and Social Development Library! We can build a future that works for everyone!  To achieve this goal, each of us must face difficult truths, including our conditioning and complicity in the story that doesn’t work for everyone. We can shine a light in to the shadows to expose the […]