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• The Kansas Death Penalty Has Cobwebs

  
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  Thats the title of a lengthy report by Dave Helling for the Kansas City Star. It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County...
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• Department of Corrections reinstates early release program

  
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  There was a time in Illinois when inmates could get released from state prison in only days. It was the era of “dress-in-dress-out.” Those days are long gone, but the state penitentiary has re-instituted another form of early release. The new early release program has caused confusion in courtrooms throughout the ...
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• 9th Circuit Revives Wrongful Conviction Lawsuit

  
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  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling in Goldstein v. County of Los Angeles is available in Adobe .pdf format. "Appeals panel revives former inmates suit against L.A. County," is Maura Dolans Los Angeles Times report. A...
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• WATCH: Would Putting Me in Prison Serve the Common Good?

  
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  The United States has the  highest incarceration rate in the world  — about 1.6 million people in 2010. Mass incarceration in our country is a problem, one that too often serves to line the pockets of  for-profit prisons   while tearing families apart and targeting people of color disproportionately.  ...
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• Guest Voz: The Case for a Young Adult Criminal Justice System

  
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  Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective Latina Lista: News from the Latino perspective - News from the Latino perspective . Guest Voz: The Case for a Young Adult Criminal Justice System by Marisa Treviño By Tracy Velázquez The Chronicle of Social Change The traditional view in the United States – ...
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• Guantanamo prisoners’ hunger strike

  
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    Day 92 of Guantanamo prisoners’ hunger strike: Prisoners at the notorious U.S. prison are perishing as they refuse to eat food in protest at their abject conditions. Lawyers say as many as 130 of the 166 detainees are on hunger strike. Some are being force-fed which rights groups say amounts to torture. The ...
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• People

  
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  Last week at one of James’ ball games, a guy we kind of (sort of) know came up to Lee. “So, I heard you got yourself in trouble.” He proceeded to try to get every detail out of Lee. Lee was upfront with him and answered all his questions. I asked why he let that [...] Related Posts: Would You Still Like Me? ...
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• End Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, Prepare to Back Hunger Strikers

  
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  supermax-cells1.jpg A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The total U.S. prison inmate population held in solitary confinement on any given day exceeds 100,000 – “the equivalent of locking up every man, woman and child in Charleston, South Carolina, in their own ...
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• California man arrested for trying to return pipe bomb at gun buyback

  
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  “This is not a pipe bomb buyback. This is a gun buyback,” Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told CBS Los Angeles. “Pipe bombs are illegal to possess, illegal to manufacture.”The police chief explained that people can turn in their firearms with no questions asked, but that this does not apply to bombs. ...
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• Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 5/6/13

  
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  prn_montage_20130507.jpg Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 5/6/13   America: A Law Unto Itself Longstanding principles of international law “have given way to the idea that there are two sets of rules in ...
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• Lehrer: The GOP is the Party of Prison Reform

  
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  I  confess that I rarely feature articles in the Weekly Standard.  A few years ago, a lead article in the NeoCon magazine  accused me of inventing the Jena 6 story out of whole cloth.  I was not amused. But criminal justice reformers ignore the conservative movement at their own peril.  At heart, America ...
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• 2013 Manzanar At Dusk – In Photographs

  
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  As stated in our post with photographs from the 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, held on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, by all accounts, this year’s Pilgrimage was a huge success. But our events that day don’t end with the afternoon Pilgrimage program. Indeed, the annual Manzanar ...
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• 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage: In Photographs

  
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  A few days have passed since the 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, and the 2013 Manzanar At Dusk program, held last Saturday, April 27, 2013. Members of the Manzanar Committee returned to Southern California on Sunday after a lot of hard work, especially in the days just prior to the events, and of course, on Saturday. ...
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• Grits begs Texas legislators to close unneeded prisons

  
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  The state of Texas is poised to make some really bad choices and Scott Henson of Grits for Breakfast is sounding the alarm. A plea to Texas budget conferees: Close two prison units, don’t buy empty cells we don’t need  This is a plea to the ten conference committee members on the budget from both chambers of ...
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• Senate Immigration Proposal: Pathway To ‘Apartheid’ & The Codification of ‘Indian Removal II’

  
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  "At best, the immigration proposal amounts to an enhanced draconian-based regime (a police state) with the attempt at criminalizing, incarcerating and deporting as many millions of red-brown peoples... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Violence and the Prison Nation

  
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  beth-richie-prison-nation.jpg By Against the Grain Radio If the problem is violence against women, is the solution the criminal justice system? Many anti-violence activists look to the police, prisons, and stepped-up criminalization for help and protection.  Beth Richie says thats a misguided ...
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• Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 4/29/13

  
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  BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpg Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 2/2913 The Looming Police State “ There’s a push to scare Americans into a police state,” said Dr. Johnny Williams , professor of ...
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• Why I’m in Favor of Prison Abolition, and Voting YES for the Justice Center

  
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  [by Gregory Johnson ] Anyone who has spoken with me over the past 30 years about the state of our justice system as it relates to incarceration, jails, prisons, and correctional institutions would accurately categorize me as a Prison Abolitionist  or perhaps a Prison Reform Advocate . Over the years, not much ...
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• Wisconsin Leads U.S. in Incarceration of Black Men

  
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  Speaking of mass incarceration: Wisconsin leads the U.S. in incarceration of black men. There is no debate about the disproportional amount of black (and brown) men in prison across the United States. Whether this is a direct result of the genetic predisposition to crime — which is bullshit — the fact remains that ...
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• Release From Prison Doesn’t End the Punishment

  
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  I spent most of a recent Friday at a conference on returning citizens. The Washington National Cathedral organized it to develop an agenda for actions that would help them re-enter the community after their release from prison — and perhaps keep so many from having to make the journey back. I’ve been trying to ...
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