June 7, 2006 (Wednesday)
- A constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is killed when it fails to gain the three-fifths majority required for cloture in the United States Senate. 49 Senators voted for the motion, and 48 voted against. This also fell far short of the two-thirds majority that would have been required for passage. (ABC News)
- The Vera Institute of Justice published a commission report that criticizes current U.S. policy towards incarceration as costly and ineffective, and calls on to Congress to address problems of violence, insufficient mental health treatment, and health care in prisons. (Washington Post) (Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons)
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