March 2012
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February 2012
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Legal immigrants face deportation for filing false... →
L.A. County sheriff would back 'sensible' plan to... →
But Lee Baca said that such licenses should only be issued after illegal immigrants fill out comprehensive applications. This week, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck came out in favor of licenses for illegal immigrants, saying it would reduce hit-and-run accidents.
Justice and Open Files →
It is time to change the government’s rule on disclosing evidence in criminal cases.
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TRIED AS ADULT FOR MURDER AT AGE 12 PAUL HENRY... →
The then Indiana 6th grader participated in a ghastly crime—specifically the murder of the step-father of a 15-year old friend, who was reportedly being abused by the step-dad. In any case, the two boys shot the man dead, with a third 12-year-old waiting outside the house.
He was sentenced to 25 years in adult prison-–an outcome that a number of attorneys and supporters hope to eventually...
“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows
Los Angeles apologizes for role in massive... →
thenoobyorker:
“Many still don’t know that under the guise of “American Jobs for Real Americans” and touting it as a panacea to end the high unemployment caused by the Depression, President Herbert Hoover and the federal government launched an aggressive anti-immigrant campaign together with local governments to “repatriate” people of Mexican descent, forcibly deporting scores of individuals....
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
harmreduction:
Scott Morgan, Associate Director, FlexYourRights.org
Whether or not you ever break the law, you should be prepared to protect yourself and your property just in case police become suspicious of you. Let’s take a look at one of the most commonly misunderstood legal situations a citizen can encounter: a police officer asking to search your belongings. Most people automatically give...
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Big Discrepancies in Sentences for Teenage... →
Once again in California, those in the state with any kind of experience and/or knowledge of juvenile justice, are trying to persuade California lawmakers to please, please, please pass a law that gives kids sentenced to prison for life a chance—just a chance, no kind of guarantee—to one day make the case that they are worthy of parole.
So far, as was true last year and the year before,...
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The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary... →
Among the misperceptions about solitary confinement is that it’s used only on the most violent inmates, and only for a few weeks or months. In fact, an estimated 80,000 Americans — many with no record of violence either inside or outside prison — are living in seclusion. They stay there for years, even decades. What this means, generally, is 23 hours a day in a cell the size of two ...
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AND IN RELATED NEWS…..SHERIFF BACA MAKES CHANGES... →
In a department memo that went out Friday, Sheriff Lee Baca made good on his promise to disband and reconfigure the sheriff’s department’s top disciplinary board—a three person body known as the Case Review Board—that decides on what disciplinary actions should be taken when a sheriff’s deputy or department supervisor has done something wrong.
In the most recent past, that Case Review Board...
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New Ruling Puts Limits on Warning to Prisoners →
WASHINGTON — In a busy day at the Supreme Court, the justices on Tuesday issued a decision limiting the circumstances in which prisoners must be told of their rights before they are questioned…
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ILLINOIS GOVERNOR SUGGESTS CLOSING CONTROVERSIAL... →
IF Governor Pat Quinn orders the closure of the Tamms supermax prison at in southern Illinois, it will be for fiscal reasons, but many experts across the country are applauding the possibility. As with California’s Pelican Bay and the Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility in Florence, Colorado, Tamms utilizes the kind of extreme isolation that many believe constitutes cruel and unusual...
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Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants?... →
Feminist Care Packages: Healing Love for Hard... →
In trying to make real the transformative justice we desire for both survivors and perpetrators of gender based violence, The CFC, FAAN Mail, and Quirky Black Girls present Feminist Care Packages*. The CFC has been sending feminist care packages to each other in our times of need but the project of care goes beyond our collective. Feminist Care Packages are public offerings for healing and...
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
– Toni Morrison
“In order to uplift a people they need to be educated, emboldened, empowered, and...”
– Calling B.S When Confronted with B.S: The Nations Drop out Rate is Proof that American Public Education is failing « Cooperative Catalyst (via adventuresinlearning)
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide...”
– Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman
January 2012
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
“When the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, they had no immigration papers.”
– Ian Ruskin
“I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality...”
– Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander, on Fresh Air.
Read excerpts and listen to the full interview here.
(via harmreduction)
“The public spends as much as $50,000 a year to incarcerate young men on whom it...”
– Linda Darling-Hammondan, “Redlining Our Schools: Why is Congress writing off poor children?”
“As a white person, I always saw the terms honky or cracker as proof of how much...”
– Tim Wise
“Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what...”
– Ulrike Meinhof
African-American Boys Receive Less Attention,... →
A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the Washington, D.C. area are...
Retired MTA worker sees News story, pays... →
Angy Rivera, 21, a John Jay College criminology student, had her tuition paid by a Good Samaritan after story in The News. Retired MTA worker Luis Hernandez said he was just happy to help Rivera, an undocumented immigrant, by paying her $2,500 bill.
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, — in prison...”
– legal scholar Michelle Alexander. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander talks about how the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the War on Drugs has undermined many of the gains of the Civil Rights movement. (via nprfreshair)
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“It is the legacy of a country, known for its civil liberties, which allowed...”
– The U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay turns 10 today. Legal analyst Andrew Cohen reflects on a dark decade in American history. Read more at The Atlantic. (via theatlantic)
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Without a country: Trying to get back to the only... →
Luis Luna, 20, was smuggled to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3. He grew up, went to school, found jobs. Then the Washington state resident was deported after a cop pulled him over for a broken headlight. He hopes to return on the undercarriage of a boxcar.