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U.S. Shouldn't Jail Youth For Life

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christopher Frank Pittman, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Youthradio, Joe Sullivan, Roper v. Simmons, Sullivan v. Florida, Youth Incarceration, U.S. Supreme Court, Juvenile Justice, Youth Imprisonment, Prison, Youth Radio, Jail, Car Jacking, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Politics News

How the Supreme Court rules in two cases concerning juvenile incarceration could determine whether sentencing juveniles to life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment.

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God Tells Me Things

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Cell Phones, Photography, T-Mobile, Steroids, Death Threats, Safari, Cotton Candy, The Berkshires, God, Tennis, Rage, Iphoto, Golf, Acne, Meaning of Life, Prison, Soccer, Greek, ABC Family, French Accents, Jail, Howloween-Costume-Party, Hulu, The Catskills, Ex-Boyfriend, Comedy News

I guess if I had to sum up all that God has taught me in three points, it would be 1. Keep it real, and 2. People are jerks, so always fake them out.

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Children of Prisoners: Innocent and At Risk

Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Children, Incarceration, Prison, Abandonment, Raising Children, Abandoned, Families, Children's Health, Family, Adoption, Politics News

Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.

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Female Journalist Sentenced To 60 Lashes For Sex Show On Saudi Arabia TV

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Lashes, Punishment, Journalist, Bold Red Line, Journalism, Religion, Lash, Mazen Abdul Jawad, Womens Rights, Taboo, Lbc, Abdul Jawad, Prison, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Lashing, Tv, Sex Toys, Jiddah, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV ...

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Are There Good Men in Sing Sing?

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Book Publishing, Prison, Books, Prison Inmates, Sing-Sing, Prison Reform, Hudson River, New York City, Men's Issues, Criminal Justice, New York News

I am here at Sing Sing to to bring The Good Men Project, the anthology I've edited, inside the prison -- physically and in spirit.

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Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

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Torn Apart by Deportation, Families Struggle to Stay Together

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.

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The Power of Books in Prison

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Prison Writing, Writers, Reading, Viktor Frankl, Authors, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Reading in Prison, Books, Stephen Jay Gould, Jail, Montaigne, Books News

The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.

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Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Detect the Meaning of Life's Moments, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Prison, Alex Pattakos, Prisoners, Viktor Frankl, Meaning, The Inner Life, Living News

Although we are not always aware of it, meaning is present in every moment, even in what may be viewed as the darkest hours of our lives.

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At Norway Prison, Inmates Lead The Good Life

GlobalPost | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bastoey, Criminal Justice, Foreign Affairs, Norway, Europe, Prison, Norway Prison, World News

OSLO, Norway -- The first time I went to prison, it was to an idyllic place with lush woodland, bright-colored houses and the waters of the Oslo fjord...

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Prison Programs Take Innovative Approach To Reducing Recidivism

Halle Tecco | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Law, Crime, Recidivism, Criminal Justice System, Prison, The Giving Life, Non-Profits, Criminal Justice, Pranks, Living News

Here's a question to the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world: how do we turn tax-consuming inmates into tax paying, law-abiding citizens?

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Prisons Raise And Serve Grass-Fed Beef

Hartke Is Online! | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Prison, Health, Nutrition, Beef, Food, Grass-Fed, Prisoners-Rights, Soy, Green News

Inmates at White Post are enlisted in animal husbandry at Sky Meadow to raise cattle for beef production. The program is a collaboration of several en...

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David Paterson Does the Right Thing and Drops the Rock

Anthony Papa | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Governor David Paterson, Prison, Cocaine, Drug Reform, Drug War, Criminal Justice, New York News

Having felt the sting of the Rockefeller laws firsthand -- serving 12 years under a 15-years-to-life sentence -- I understand the full meaning of the reforms that went into effect today.

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Poo Poo on Putting Polanski in Prison

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Law Enforcement, Justice, Prison, Polanski, Roman Polanski, Extradition, Entertainment News

Wouldn't it serve the interests of justice and the American people more to devote the monies intended to be wasted on this sensational situation to solving real and pervasive problems?

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Make Them Work for a Living

David Jones | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Formerly Incarcerated, Inmates, Recidivism, Prison, Felons, David Paterson, New York News

It's time to be really tough on criminals. Let's make it so they have to get a job when they get out of jail -- so they can suffer like the rest of us.

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Hunger Strikes Expose Hugo Chávez's Myths

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Luisa Ortega Diaz, Hunger Strike, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Robert Amsterdam, Organization of American States, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Politics, Human Rights, Eligio CedeñO, Student Protest, Prison, Political Prisoners, Julio CéSar Rivas, World News

The decision of Venezuelan authorities to send a 22-year-old university student to prison for trumped-up crimes has caused widespread public outrage, especially among students.

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Ford's Lucky Day Revisited

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dublin, Gerald Ford, Judge, Sara-Jane-Moore, Sarah Jane Kahn, West Virginia, Prison, Secret Service, Charleston, St Francis Hotel, Assassination, Attempt, Fbi, New Jersey, San Francisco, Samuel Conti, Politics News

Thirty-four years later, the Secret Service is still trying to understand the mind of that 45 year old woman, mother and doctor's wife who aimed and shot at Gerald Ford.

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.16.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Shiite, Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Insurgency, Ronald Bucca, Soldiers, Kuwait, Enemy Combatants, Fallujah, Camp Taji, Prison, Detention Center, Camp Bucca, Baghdad, Jail, Sunni, World News

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

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The Case for Detention Reform

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Private Prisons, Dhs, Aurora, Prison, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, Immigrant Detention, Denver News

Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.

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Shoe Thrower's Release: Iraqi Journalist Muntadhar Al-Zeidi To Be Freed Monday

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, George Bush, Iraqi Journalist, Journalist, Shoe Thrower, TV Reporter, Prison, Iraq, Shoe, Bush, World News

BAGHDAD — The family of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush is preparing a festive welcome for the TV re...

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Sexual Misconduct By Prison Staff Members Doubled In Recent Years: Report

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Prison Reform, Prisons, Sexual Abuse, Prison, Prison Misconduct, Home News

Reports of sexual misconduct by prison staff members with federal inmates doubled over the past eight years, and government watchdogs called Thursday ...

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Long Island's Empty Jail

Nick Carr | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Long Island, New York, Prison, Jail, East Meadow, Abandoned, Garden City, Scouting Ny, New York News

Whenever a film or TV show needs to film in a prison location, the go-to place to scout is a decommissioned jail at the Nassau County Correctional Facility.

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Transsexual To Be Transferred To Women's Prison

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Phillippa Kaufmann, Judge David Elvin, Prison, Transexual, Jack Straw, Transgender Issues, Gender, World News

LONDON — A British court issued a landmark ruling Friday, allowing a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be...

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The Devil They Know: Biography of an American Inmate

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Addiction, Single Mothers, Child Abuse, US Poverty, Recidivism, Prison, Violence, Alcohol Abuse, American Prisoner Description, American Prison Inmates, Prison Inmates, Politics News

A system which punishes the poor for reacting unexceptionally to their poverty has created a criminal class which views prison as a sort of career.

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