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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

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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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We Shall Not Be Moved

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Punishment, Public Schools, Violence, Racism, Peace Circles, Restorative Justice, Poverty, Politics News
Robert Koehler

What struck me about these teachers was their commitment to a loving, caring, peace-building process -- in the face not simply of difficult students but the forces of cynicism and burnout.

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Stop Beating Students with Disabilities in Schools

Alice Farmer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Aclu, Abuse, Psychological Stability, Corporal Punishment, Punishment, Elementary School, Human-Rights-Law, Students, Disabled-Children, Child Abuse, Human Rights Watch, Disabilities, ACLU Torture, Behavioral Psychology, Politics News
Alice Farmer

Corporal punishment causes pain, humiliation, and in some cases deep bruising or other serious injury; it also can have long-lasting psychological consequences.

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Torture, American-Style

Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

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Anne-Marie Cusac

What astonished me was not the Abu Ghraib torture, but the public's shock and dismay. How could people be so surprised when so many of the same practices had already happened here?

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News
Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Gov. Martin O'Malley

I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.

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Kids for Cash

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Punishment, Criminal Justice System, Crime, Children, Amy-Swartley, Pennsylvania, Obama Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania-Jailing-Kids-for-Cash, Politics News
Robert Koehler

A number of bad ideas and virulent trends in American life converge, it seems to me, in the unfolding scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., known as "kids for cash."

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Bush the Teflon Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Perhaps it was the sexual nature of Eliot Spitzer's offenses that made the shame stick. That and the fact that the former NY governor admitted he did wrong. Bush by contrast is today's Teflon man.

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