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CT: New Haven Independent Teen Prisoner?s Mom: Raise The Age
Posted on March 06, 2009New Haven Independent Teen Prisoner?s Mom: Raise The Age by Melinda Tuhus | March 5, 2009 2:17 PM HARTFORD ? ?I don?t understand why they have this idea that sending kids to jail is gonna help them,? cried Katherine Gonzalez...
PA: Does any 11-year old deserve life in prison?
Posted on March 06, 2009Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Does any 11-year-old deserve life in prison? By Chris Togneri TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, February 28, 2009 Fears that someone might try to harm an 11-year-old homicide suspect prompted authorities to place extra patrols at a Beaver County detention center,...
MA: Retired public workers smiling all the way to the bank Still on sheriff?s payroll
Posted on March 05, 2009Video and 2 articles on today's (3-5-09) developments on the Rockefeller Drugs Laws
Posted on March 05, 2009UT: Senate panel OKs prison-education overhaul. Sponsor says prisoners should pay bigger share of their behind-bars education
Posted on March 04, 2009CA: State to stop imprisoning undocumented immigrants with prior convicitions
Posted on March 03, 2009Mass. fifth in nation for adults in prison, probation or parole---$1.25 B. 1 in 24 under correctional control
Posted on March 03, 2009Human Rights Watch Report: Decades of Disparity Drug Arrests and Race in the United States
Posted on March 03, 2009PEW: 1 in 11 African Americans Under Correctional Control, 1 in 27 Latinos, 1 in 45 white people
Posted on March 02, 2009Pew Study: 1 in 31 adults in the U.S. under criminal justice control. Money for prisons not probation/paorole
Posted on March 02, 2009Keeping the Faith, Ignoring the History---Op-Ed on faith based initiatives and the Obama Administration
Posted on March 01, 2009Re-Entry Policy Council: U.S. House of Representatives Approves Over $133 Million for Prisoner Reentry in FY 2009, Including $25 Million for the Second Chance Act
Posted on February 27, 2009The Scott Sisters: Two Life Sentences for 11 Dollars? By Anthony Papa
Posted on February 26, 2009The Scott Sisters: Two Life Sentences for 11 Dollars? By Anthony Papa February 25, 2009 Talk about injustice. How do you wind up in prison serving two life terms for a robbery that netted 11 dollars? That question has haunted...
Justice Strategies New Report: Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement
Posted on February 26, 2009New Report from Justice Strategies (Feb 2009) Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement Democracy on ICE 287(g) is a tiny provision in federal immigration law that allows Homeland Security?s...
MA: Mandatory Minimums in Action: A Berkshire County case highlights the controversies in school-zone sentencing.
Posted on February 26, 2009Mandatory Minimums in Action: A Berkshire County case highlights the controversies in school-zone sentencing. February 26, 2009 By Maureen Turner, Valley Advocate (Northampton, MA) On a June morning in 2004, 17-year-old Mitchell Lawrence rode his bicycle from his home in...
MA: Urban Penalty Do drug-free school zones unfairly target cities and people of color? And a response from Lois Ahrens
Posted on February 25, 2009Urban Penalty Do drug-free school zones unfairly target cities and people of color? Thursday, February 26, 2009 By Maureen Turner Valley Advocate (MA) In January of 1989, Gov. Mike Dukakis was fresh off a failed presidential bid, but he wasn't...
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