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Congressman Abercrombie has a blog

And he's using it to tout funding for both police and inmates:

This past Wednesday U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie made headway in acquiring funds to aid Hawaii?s growing needs. The U.S House Appropriations Committee approved two more of the twelve 2009 spending bills that are aimed at aiding Hawaii?s commerce, research and development, and alternate energy sources.

Among the funding was $300,000 set aside for the upgrade of Honolulu Police Department?s Crime Lab, a lab which also serves numerous U.S. government agencies and several branches of the military.

He also obtained $100,000 to help the Hawaii Innocence Project. The program helps Hawaiian inmates obtain freedom after they have been unjustly incarcerated by investigating and retrying wrongful conviction cases.

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on June 27, 2008 (boomark / email).