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Behind the Prison RIot in California

Pat Nolan | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chino, Sexual Violence, Riots, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Overcrowding, Us Prison Overcrowding, Prison, Sentencing, Prison Rape, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Politics News
Pat Nolan

The skills the inmates develop to survive violent prisons make them dangerous when they are released. You can't cage men like animals and then expect them to be model citizens when they return home.

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Supreme Court DNA Ruling: Once Again Roberts Court Allows "Procedural" Issues to Trump Justice

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court Nominees, Supreme Court, William Osborn, Justice Roberts, Dna Testing, President Obama, Criminal Justice, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Justice Scalia, Post Conviction Relief, Justice Thomas, Sentencing, Justice Alito, Justice Kennedy, Justice Souter, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that convicted inmates do not have the constitutional right to DNA testing, even though it could, as Justice Stevens said in his dissent, "ascertain the truth once and for all."

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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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Elderly Saudi Woman Sentenced To 40 Lashes For Mingling

CNN | Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Court, Womens Rights, Human Rights, Middle East, Sentencing, Muslim Womens Rights, Saudi Arabia, Physical Abuse, Saudi Lashes Elderly Woman, World News

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two ...

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The Food of Love, Eat It or Else!

Ivan Katz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Classical Music, Susan J. Fornot-Lippencott, Andrew Vactor, Judicial Follies, Champaign County, Champaign County Municipal Court, Sentencing, Noise Ordinances, Criminal Law, Media News
Ivan Katz

It is, in theory, difficult to criticize a judge for seeking to craft a sentence that fits the offense, but doing so on such trivial matters as noise ordinance violations is a massive waste of judicial resources.

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