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• How Much Influence on a Child’s Education Does Home Life Provide

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 509
  Recently, educators have been under fire for the perceived lack of progress children are making in school. All kinds of arm chair jockeys have jumped in to “fix” the educational system. Testing has become the mecca for deciding what a child knows or doesnt know. Evaluating teachers has become the bar for whether ...
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• Governor Chris Christie on Drug Policy Reform

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 122
  It is very difficult for elected officials to talk seriously about drug policy reform (It is easy for them to talk about it non-seriously, but that’s a separate matter). The issues require nuanced dialogue, but the debate is dominated by polarized shouting matches. Reform minded politicians are typically reduced to ...
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• The New Jim Crow - Now in Trade Paperback

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  Leonard Pitts writes, " The new Jim Crow alive and thriving ," in his syndicted column.  Its via his home paper, the Miami Herald. In June of 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, The New Jim Crow , by Michelle Alexander, which I called a “troubling and profoundly necessary” work. Alexander promulgated ...
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• Eroy Brown

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  Mike Ward writes, " Brown case highlights reluctance to parole longtime offenders ," for todays Austin American-Statesman.  Heres an extended excerpt from this must-read. Eroy Brown, whose acquittal on murder charges involving the deaths of a prison warden and a farm manager in the 1980s shook the Lone Star ...
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• How Can Ex-Con Get Career Back on Track?

  
  The Career Doctor Blog — Authority: 110
  Anonymous writes: I have been in the information technology field for the last 13 years, because of some weird circumstances I was sent to jail for the past 6 months and now I’m out on parole. How do I get my career back on the right path? How do I tell potential employers about my parole, but not hurt my ...
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• ‘Michelle Alexander: Jim Crow Still Exists in America’

  
  Friends of Justice — Authority: 411
  By Melanie Wilmoth In a recent episode of Fresh Air on NPR, Dave Davies interviews attorney and author Michelle Alexander. In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Alexander argues that, as a result of the war on drugs, the U.S. has created a system of mass incarceration which ...
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• Another Former Warden Calls for Repeal

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  The Salem Statesman Journal reports, " Former Oregon warden seeks end to death penalty ."  Its written by Alan Gustafson. A former state penitentiary warden who oversaw the last two inmate executions in this state has joined an advocacy group determined to repeal Oregons death penalty. In an interview Friday ...
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• On the issue of black men in prison (still)

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 496
    I’m sure most of us have heard much of this before, but during the week of the Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday, and as we ease on down the road of the 2012 campaign season, the bitter subject of mass black incarceration needs to be raised at full volume once again. Many props to one of my favorite shows, ...
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• High incarceration rate prompts scrutiny

  
  The Temple News — Authority: 517
  After learning that one out three Americans are arrested before the age of 23, Craig argues that the criminal system needs reform. I have to confess, I’m not very good with numbers. Statistics like the death toll in Iraq, the number of starving people in the world and the rising global climate are all numbers that ...
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• Please sign an Online Petition to help a brave Father

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 523
  Posted by Lawless on January 16 As a cause working to expose abuse and injustice perpetrated against Americans by judges, it is not often that we come across regular citizens willing to “go public” regarding judicial misconduct allegations against the Family Court judge in their case.  The risks of reprisals by ...
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• Does Modern-Day Jim Crow Exist In America?

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 708
  As we recall the civil rights gains that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked so hard for, noted legal scholar Michelle Alexander claims there’s still a long way to go before blacks achieve true social equality. SEE ALSO: Will Obama Outsmart Everyone? In her book,  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in ...
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• SEX PANIC: Highly recommended

  
  "In the News" by Karen Franklin, Ph.D. — Authority: 99
  As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. -- Justice William ...
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• Neat!

  
  A Dusty Frame — Authority: 412
  I am SO not into celebrities, but I saw this link today from Prison Fellowhip. The new Miss America had an incarcerated parent and made her platform helping children of incarcerated parents! How awesome is that!? Related Posts:2 Years Ago TodayBooks to read with children of incarcerated parentsNew chaplainA little ...
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• The Funny Pages – Happy Birthday Martin?

  
  Lance Scurvin — Authority: 112
  What might Dr. Martin Luther King say if he could return to life and see the condition of Black people today?
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• details of security camera systems los angeles

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  A residential safety process is turning out to be additional and much more imperative thanks to the improving crime and theft close to us. They may be in a position to supply us with video footage, whether or not live or recorded, inside our house. The truth is, because of the presence of surveillance systems, ...
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• This Touched Me

  
  A Dusty Frame — Authority: 412
  If you’ve peeked at my Pinterest boards you may have seen that I happen to really like a certain football team….   Several weeks ago, before the game, I saw this clip on the pre-game show. Even if you don’t love football, please watch it for me–it’s back story for the rest of the post. [...]
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• America Worse Than Apartheid on Black Incarceration

  
  Modern School — Authority: 117
  Michelle Alexander, who wrote the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” was interviewed on Democracy Now on Friday, January 13, 2012. According to the interview, there are more African Americans under correctional control today than there were enslaved in 1850. More African ...
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• Commentary on the Mississippi Pardons

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  Lets start with the editorials and commentary in this post; news coverage, in the next. Todays Jackson Clarion-Ledger carries the editorial, " Pardons: Divine right trumps victims? " In his way out the door of the Governors Mansion, Haley Barbour caused a firestorm of citizen anger by pardoning more than 200 ...
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• International Incarceration Rates

  
  County Jail and Bail Bonds Resource News — Authority: 102
  The international incarceration rates are an important piece of knowledge to have as it gives us all an understanding of where we are at as a nation and country compared to others across the world. It may or may not surprise you that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. We [...]
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• Mississippi Clemency Controversy

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  " Miss. Judge Blocks Release of Convicts Granted Pardons, Clemency by Outgoing Governor ," is the latest AP report, via the Washington Post. A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who’d been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as ...
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