Of the total inmate population in the federal system, over 40, 000 inmates are categorized as community custody, which means they can, and do, work outside of the prison.

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Our organization, Team Rubicon, uses continued service through disaster response as a means to maintain purpose, community, and a sense-of-self.

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Community partnerships are also being sought as a means of keeping leisure facilities open.

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As the crisis was unfolding, Mr. Sarkozy met with Jewish and Muslim leaders, a move many saw as a means of preventing the risk of community infighting.

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"Environmental justice, or as I like to call it environmental equality, means that no community should have to bear the brunt of lots of environmental burdens and not enjoy some environmental benefits, " she said.

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All this means that tough choices lie ahead, all of them fraught with risk, as the community deals with current dangers while also embracing broader and more enduring tasks.

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So the Tide showed us what it takes to win as a team, but they also showed what it means to be a part of a larger community: to look out for one another, to help.

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Queen Mary's losing in-patient surgery, which means it would no longer carry out operations such as knee and hip replacements and in effect become a community health centre.

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Enacting comprehensive health reform as a means of expanding access to care for people living with HIV has been a top priority of the HIV community for many years.

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