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2012-05-26T19:27:13+01:00

Louisiana Incarcerated - NOLA.com
www.nola.com
Louisiana Incarcerated: How we built the world's prison capital

2012-05-24T00:31:24+01:00

35,948 Arrested Yesterday
truth-out.org
Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested across the United States.

2012-05-24T00:12:56+01:00

US prison inmates returning to society: How will they be received?
www.csmonitor.com
States, eager to save money and adopt alternatives to incarceration, release inmates in record numbers. Is society ready for the surge?

In cases with no blacks in the jury pool, black defendants were convicted at an...

2012-05-23T23:44:04+01:00

In cases with no blacks in the jury pool, black defendants were convicted at an 81% rate and white defendants at a 66% rate. When the jury pool included at least one black member, conviction rates were almost identical: 71% for black defendants and 73% for whites.

A jury pool's race can deny justice
www.cnn.com
Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson ask: Can justice be served if defendants face a jury that includes no members of their race?

2012-05-23T22:53:48+01:00

This Is What Tyranny Looks Like
www.commondreams.org
Remember when police beat Tea Party activists with batons, raided homes without warrants, unjustly arrested and strip-searched Tea Party protesters, or attacked and intimidated journalists covering Tea Party rallies? Me neither.

2012-05-23T00:09:22+01:00

Innocent, but broke
www.salon.com
Glen Chapman was exonerated from death row in 2008. Why hasn't he received the $750k he deserves in compensation?

2012-05-22T22:07:55+01:00

United States Continuing to Overspend on Police, Despite Decreasing Crime Rates
www.justicepolicy.org
Although crime rates are at the lowest they have been in over 30 years, the number of arrests has declined only slightly between 2009 and 20102 and the U.S. still spends more than $100 billion on police every year.

A local story for me, and a great example of claims-making, but the comments are...

2012-05-22T15:00:12+01:00

A local story for me, and a great example of claims-making, but the comments are the best part.

High potency marijuana concerns authorities
www.starnewsonline.com
Technological advancements have given today's teenagers access to a lot of things their parents could hardly envision at that age: The Internet. iPads. And marijuana many times more powerful than what people smoked in the 1970s.

2012-05-22T14:30:14+01:00

There Is a Way! Beyond the Big, Bad Corporation
www.alternet.org
New corporate models focus on ownership, governance, sustainability and social benefit.

2012-05-22T14:15:46+01:00

Smackdown: ACLU Calls Out Private Prison Giant
www.motherjones.com
But the Corrections Corporation of America ain't biting.

2012-05-22T13:59:01+01:00

Wrongful Convictions: A New Exoneration Registry Tests Stubborn Judges
www.theatlantic.com
A tally of wrongfully convicted Americans shows that justices need to weigh dogma against real-world experience.

http://www.minnpost.com/learning-curve/2012/03/alec-and-corporate-fingerprints-a...

2012-05-22T13:34:42+01:00

http://www.minnpost.com/learning-curve/2012/03/alec-and-corporate-fingerprints-are-all-over-national-push-online-learning

ALEC and corporate fingerprints are all over national push for online learning | MinnPost
www.minnpost.com
A bill would make Minnesota one of a handful of states to mandate student participation in online learning, a booming industry in search of customers.

Currently 891 Exonerations

2012-05-22T02:07:11+01:00

Currently 891 Exonerations

About the Registry
www.law.umich.edu
The National Registry of Exonerations is a joint project of the University of the Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. We maintain an up to date list of all known exonerations in the United States since 1989.

2012-05-21T18:46:40+01:00

Violence South of the Rio Grande Leads Back to U.S.
www.huffingtonpost.com
While it's often hard to blame Americans for overlooking the bloodshed below the border, we can't continue to ignore the 50,000 plus lives that our neighbor to the south has lost in just five years as a result of our destructive drug laws.

Served their time, now imprisoned for what they might do.

2012-05-21T18:35:31+01:00

Served their time, now imprisoned for what they might do.

Prisoners challenge extended confinement for sex crimes
www.newsobserver.com
They are sex offenders being held – sometimes for years – under a recent federal law that allows the detention of those deemed so dangerous the government will not risk their release even when their sentence is complete.

873 faulty convictions in the past 23 years that have been recognized by prosecu...

2012-05-21T18:31:20+01:00

873 faulty convictions in the past 23 years that have been recognized by prosecutors, judges or governors

Wrongful convictions shine spotlight on judicial system
www.usatoday.com
Perjury and faulty eyewitness identification are key culprits in miscarriages of justice, university researchers find.

2012-05-20T03:38:10+01:00

'Texas Wrongfully Executed' An Innocent Man, Judge Wrote In Secret Exoneration
www.huffingtonpost.com
A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire.

2012-05-20T03:34:39+01:00

The Criminal Cost of Talking to a Loved One Behind Bars
colorlines.com
For years, states have worked with private phone companies to charge high rates on phone calls to and from prisons. Now activists are trying to force the FCC’s hand to do something about it.

"Privatization simply hasn't worked for health care, mortgage banking, higher ed...

2012-05-19T22:52:55+01:00

"Privatization simply hasn't worked for health care, mortgage banking, higher education, or prison management."

Five Facts That Put America to Shame
www.commondreams.org
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health care, education, and fin...

2012-05-18T21:03:21+01:00

The Minimal Coverage of Corporate Safety Crimes
www.thecrimereport.org
The criminal conspiracy case tied to the deaths of 29 Massey Energy employees in a mine explosion hasn't gotten the kind of media attention it deserves.

More from the geniuses in Raleigh

2012-05-17T18:31:43+01:00

More from the geniuses in Raleigh

Death row inmates may lose cable TV
www.newsobserver.com
The House Rules committee voted Wednesday to introduce legislation that would ban inmates on death row from watching television.

2012-05-17T18:29:34+01:00

Mentally Ill Inmates Sue To Get Out Of Solitary
www.npr.org
Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be among other offenders. His lawyers argue, however, that prolonged solitary confinement is contributing to a vicious cycle, making his psychiatric conditions wors...

2012-05-17T18:25:03+01:00

More States Require Drug Testing Welfare Recipients
www.pewstates.org
Tennessee is the latest state set to require drug tests of those applying for welfare benefits. But while such proposals are popular in statehouses this year, their legality is still unclear.

Not a crime.

2012-05-17T16:07:59+01:00

Not a crime.

America's Poverty Tax - EHRP
economichardship.org
And Baldwin uttered those words 50 years ago, long before the working poor became Big Business – long before the invention of the payday loan, rent-to-own, and a long list of diabolically clever ideas that entrepreneurs have devised to get hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars rich off those with thin wal...

2012-05-17T16:06:41+01:00

Barbara Ehrenreich, Looting the Lives of the Poor
www.tomdispatch.com
Local governments are discovering they can partially make up for declining tax revenues through fines, fees, and other costs imposed on indigent defendants, often for crimes no more dastardly than driving with a suspended license. And if that seems like an inefficient way to make money, given the hi...

2012-05-16T17:01:55+01:00

Stopped, Frisked and Angry
www.thecrimereport.org
While other cities are re-thinking the practice, New York argues its Stop, Question and Frisk policy is crucial to crimefighting.

2012-05-16T14:18:20+01:00

Republicans Overwhelmingly Support State Medical Marijuana Laws
www.huffingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON -- Nearly three-quarters of Americans and more than two-thirds of Republicans believe federal officials should respect state laws on medical marijuana, a new Mason-Dixon survey of 1,000 likely 2012 general election voters found. "What the results of this survey show is that there is absol...