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• Developmental Psychologist Says Teenagers Are Different

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Thats the title for, " A Conversation With Laurence Steinberg ," conducted by Claudia Dreifus for the New York Times science section. Laurence Steinberg, a developmentalpsychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, is one of theleading experts in the United States on adolescent behavior andadolescent brain ...
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• Human Rights Facts (166): The Cost of the Prison System in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 432
  Prison cartoon by Pavel Constantin ( source ) I’ve written before on human rights violations caused by the prison system. Imprisonment as such isn’t a human rights violation. I would rather call it a limitation of human rights (specifically the right to freedom of movement, but other rights as well), at least ...
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• Everything you never wanted to know about the American prison-industrial complex

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 742
  Everything you never wanted to know about the American prison-industrial complex. Part 2: Prison Nation.
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• Shyne Speaks On Incarceration In Belize

  
  iHipHop — Authority: 152
  Shyne, who is now back in his home country Belize, has been speaking to different groups of people on his experience with his 10 year jail bid.Shyne’s been speaking to students and recently spoke to inmates at a Belize prison. He talks about the shooting incident which landed him in jail for almost 10 years ...
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• National Imprisonment Rates

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 424
  Yesterday the ABS released a set of corrective services data that shows us how many people are sitting in the big house at any given time. Among the figures there were quite a few surprises, as well as a quite few unfortunately predictable results. First up, the national figures by state and territory. For all ...
  6 days ago

• Why Democrats and Republicans Won’t Confront Black Mass Incarceration, and Why The Green Party Will

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 137
  By Bruce A. Dixon Although the phenomenon of black mass incarceration is at the center of African American life, it continues to be obfuscated or ignored. The bipartisan consensus is that the social policy of black mass incarceration may exist only the minds of black people, and is certainly off the table as a ...
  1 week ago

• The Keeper and the Kept

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Thats the title of a new report from the W. Haywood Burns Institute that will be issued Tuesday.  Shadi Rahimi writes, " National Leader in Juvenile Justice Poised to Release New Report ." For the families of the more than 90,000 youth incustody of the juvenile justice system any given day, Thanksgivingdelivers ...
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• More Juvenile Sentencing Reform Commentary

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Alexandra Cox posts, " Why Brain Science Is Bad for Juvenile Justice ," at Huffington Post.  Cox is a research consultant for the Brooklyn-based Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives . The Supreme Court will decide next year about whether they will allowthe use of life without parole for juvenile ...
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• Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Thats the title of Adam Liptaks report in todays New York Times.  LINK In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of peopleaccused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil libertiesgroups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up on ...
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• Tears in Church

  
  A Dusty Frame — Authority: 424
  The other day, I thought about my friend Gigi and how much I miss her. She used to be my cry through church buddy!I haven’t been as raw emotionally lately. I don’t mind that. I detest crying in public!On Sunday, we had a guest soloist and he sang, “He’s Been Faithful to Me”*This song is [...]
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• Prison Factories: Slave Labor for the New World Order?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 566
  Source: Parascope - Charles Overbeck The Justice Department reported in August that there are nearly 1.6 million men and women incarcerated in the United States — currently the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. This startling figure tops off a decade of rapid expansion of America’s prison ...
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• Continued Coverage of Juvenile Sentencing Reform

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Adam Liptaks latest Sidebar column is, " Standards for Juvenile Punishment ."  Its available at the New York Times website and is scheduled for tomorrows print edition.  An extended excerpt: The law is made up of rules and standards. Here is an example of a rule, established by the Supreme Court in Roper v. ...
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• The Pen Pal Business

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  " Death-Row Pen Pals ," is the title of Deidre Depkes Daily Beast report. ATexas inmate, executed Wednesday, sought companionship via the Internetbefore his death. Inside the death-row pen-pal business—and how felonsbid for friends. On Wednesday, Danielle Simpson, 30, became the 22nd person executedby the state ...
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• Another Call for Juvenile Sentencing Reform

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Toadays Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania carries the editorial, " Chance for change: Life sentence removes hope for juvenile reform ." The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is: Do we believe juveniles sentenced to life in prison can reform? Last week, the justices faced this question in a case ...
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• PRISON PROFITEERS: WHO MAKES MONEY FROM MASS INCARCERATION

  
  MoneyBlog — Authority: 145
  ISBN13: 9781595584540 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description The startling operation of industries, corporations, as well as people profiting from a seizure of over 2.3 million Americans. “Positive: With a baby boomlet demographics, we predict augmenting ...
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• Spinning Disk Drives – Not Ready for the Pasture Yet

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 595
  Robin Harris , an infrequent, but important, contributor to ZDNet put up a piece today that clarifies for many some things that I learned long ago, and make use of each time I set up a computer. Yet, for many, I must justify my actions, and give them a quick class in things I feel they should know. (I have always had ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Call for Juvenile Sentencing Reform

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Todays Silicon Valley Mercury News carries the editorial, " For kids, life in prison without parole is cruel and unusual punishment ." FiveSan Jose teenagers sit in jail today, facing the possibility that theywill spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Two were charged asadults Tuesday in the stabbing death ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quoted: Malika Saada Saar on the ‘Precious’ Ending That Should Have Been Shown

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 635
  This movie is in many ways a fairy tale. The character Precious gets to be saved by a caring caseworker and a loving teacher. In real life, poor, undereducated and sexually victimized girls are most likely to end up in the juvenile justice system. I see it all the time. There is the 13-year-old who became pregnant to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gucci Mane Accepts Responsibility for Legal Troubles

  
  The Boombox Music Blog — Authority: 616
  Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News Recently incarcerated rapper Gucci Mane is finally speaking out about going back to the slammer for violating his probation. "I have accepted full responsibility for my actions," he said in a statement. "I am ready to deal with what is in front of me right now. Thankfully, my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Higher Education Inside.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 742
  Wesleyan , a liberal arts college in Middletown, CT, has started a program that allows inmates in a nearby high-security prison to take classes . The students are selected competitively - with only a 16% acceptance rate - and receive the same rigorous education provided to Wesleyan undergrads. Here you can read ...
  2 weeks ago

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