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DETROIT — The Police Department here shut down its crime laboratory on Thursday after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The audit said sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions, and officials expect a wave of appeals in cases that the laboratory processed. Read it here
CHICAGO (Reuters) – There's a new sheriff in jail.
Sheriff Mark Curran of Lake County, Illinois, walked into his own jail on Wednesday to spend a week as a prisoner, saying he was divinely inspired to learn what it was like to be confined and to sample jail programs designed to reduce recidivism.
"The biblical adage that we reap what we sow is very true in criminal justice," said Curran, 45, before exchanging his business suit for a prison jumpsuit at the Waukegan, Illinois, facility near Chicago.
Illinois "has historically had one of the worst-run prison systems in the nation ... treating inmates like caged animals only to see them released back into their communities angrier and more bitter than they originally were," he said.
Curran will spend time in the general population of some 600 inmates who are awaiting trial on charges of murder, rape and lesser crimes, though at times he will have his own cell.
He will sit in on high school equivalency classes, and spend a night in the high-security unit and in the medical unit.
(Reporting by Andrew Stern; Editing by Xavier Briand)
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2046426420080821
17.8.08
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I'm Home, but Still Haunted by Guantanamo |
By
Jumah al Dossari - Sunday, August 17, 2008; B04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502985.html
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16.8.08
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Disabled inmate dumped at shelter after discharge Leslie Boyd • LBoyd@CITIZEN-TIMES.com • published August 16, 2008 12:15 am http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880815148 or here |
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Message from PatrickCrusade website "With all the concern and worries about the American Economy, there is one multi-billion dollar industry that is booming and seeing record high numbers in production. The American Criminal Justice and Prison System..." continued here |
3.8.08
From:
"Sherry Swiney" taoss@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Must see video - The Scott Loper story
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:35:46 -0400
The Scott Loper Story: In His Own Words
Scott Loper, a U.S. citizen living in Canada, was a good cop, highly trained in surveillance and criminal investigation.
On the verge of exposing a police-run narcotics ring in Durham, Ontario, Loper was discovered by the ring and imprisoned for four years on extorted charges.
Denied his rights to U.S. Consulate protection under the Vienna Convention, Loper was tortured to the point where he often questioned his ability to make it out alive...
27.7.08
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Social
Uprising of 2008 A Collective Evolution |
http://www.treehuggersofamerica.org/A_Social_Uprising.php or here
26.7.08
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It's
cruel to sentence teens ages 13, 14 to die in prison
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/OPINION04/807260322 or here |
24.7.08
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Amnesty Internationl comments on United Nations report Death Penalty Alabama, Germany and the Death Penalty here |
18.7.08
| ABCNews | Many ills found at Chicago jail, nation's biggest |
10.7.08
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The Man Who Would Not DieThis is a story about Thomas Arthur, a man on death row. I went to watch him die here |
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FBI's
Forensic Test Full of Holes Lee Wayne Hunt is one of hundreds of defendants whose convictions are in question now that FBI forensic evidence has been discredited |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111701681_pf.html or here
7.7.08
From: "Sherry Swiney" taoss@worldnet.att.net
Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:38:15 -0400
Subject: Virginia Botches 100th Execution U.S. now only country in the world that practices juvenile LWOP
NEW
INFORMATION ON JUVENILE LWOP GLOBAL PRACTICE
And again from our friend Sherry on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:31:58 -0400
Alabama Reaction to UN Report
You can read both the mail here
6.7.08
Walk the line
Mike Jimenez’s personal turning
point puts his corrections union at a crossroads
3.7.08
| Monsters and Critics.com | UN human rights agent charges Alabama with execution of innocents |
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Alabama on the world stage |
Read both the articles here
26.6.08
Virginia Botches 100th Execution
Virginia Abolitionists Ring the Toll Bell 100 Times in Protest
By Dee (read here)
25.6.08
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ClaudioGiustiREPORTS (almost all in English)
(2/6/08) PAPERS (2/6/08) TEXAS SET TO RESUME EXECUTIONS THIS WEEK (2/6/08) BIRMANIA La Signora (Daw) Aung San Suu Kyi (Premio Nobel per la Pace nel 1991) compie gli anni il prossimo 19 Giugno. Le invierò gli auguri per tramite di.... (2/6/08) Sentence Reversals in Mental Retardation Cases (3/6/08) DEATH PENALTY CONTROVERSY LIVES ON (3/6/08) PRISON SHIPS (3/6/08) Executed Based on Jailhouse Snitch (4/6/08) GRANDE BERLOW (6/6/08) STUDY ON QUALITY OF DEFENSE (7/6/08) SLOWER GROWTH IN THE NATION’S PRISON AND JAIL POPULATIONS (7/6/08) US: Improve Treatment of Children in Armed Conflict (11/6/08) AMERICAN GULAG (24/6/08) NEW LEGAL GLOSSARY A new, improved edition of my glossary of American legal terms is almost ready. It will be soon published by Osservatorio sulla Legalità e i Diritti, replacing the 2007 edition http://www.osservatoriosullalegalita.org/special/usjus/000.htm (25/6/08) COURT REJECTS DEATH PENALTY
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From: Steve
Moser
Sent: Wednesday,
June 25, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject:
War and Inflation
Excellent article! |
22.6.08
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Prisons for Profit |
31.5.08
From NCADP:
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BUY THE BOOK!
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Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity Rev. Pickett ministered to 95 men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry-a few who might even have been innocent. All of them found in Rev. Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This first-hand experience gave Rev. Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America. The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society.
You can get copies at your local book store or by clicking HERE. Or just make a straight out donation to NCADP HERE. and thanks.... Abraham J. Bonowitz |
23.5.08
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Abu Graib? No USA! Please pass this on widely Torture in American prisons - a must see for every patriot. This is unAmerican, happening on our own land in our own backyard. What Presidential candidate will have the wisdom to tackle this? What society will be outraged? "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead. -- quoted by, Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Blessings to all, Sherry Swiney www.patrickcrusade.org |
7.5.08
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As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness find both the articles here |
5.5.08
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ClaudioGiustiREPORTS (something is in English and something in Italian)
(1/5/08) WHAT BECAME OF THEM? "What became of Piers Bannister and Erik Prokosch? Two famous and good collaborators of Amnesty International. They used to look after death penalty. Now they're disappeared and, maybe by chance, no report come from London any longer. Anybody knows something?" (5/5/08) A MUST http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-5439.ZC1.html |
2.5.08
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You may remember stories from this office last November, when a prison guard in Muskegon allowed his shackled subject to fall as he was walking out of Hackley Hospital in Muskegon. Phil Jennette, 59, had just received a CT-Scan. Jennette was suffering from lung cancer, was very ill, and the guard wasn't walking near him, so when he stumbled on the way back to the van he fell on his face. He lost consciousness and was returned to Hackley's Emergency Room. Mr. Jennette suffered severe injuries to his face and left eye. He had a broken bone in his left eye socket, the injury required seven stiches, and he had double vision in that eye since then. Incensed fellow prisoners asked HFP to assist in hiring an attorney. They wanted to file a civil suit against the guard who, they claimed, could have and should have prevented this. We tried. The prisoners received nothing more than a legal bill, and an opinion that a jury would probably determine that he "got what he deserved." He was in prison on a sex charge. Doctors tried surgery, but the cancer was too far advanced. On April 23, a friend of HFP, one of the compassionate social workers in the MDOC, was frantically trying to get Mr. Jennette into a nursing home for his final days after successfully getting his pain under control. The Parole Board had approved. But it was just too late. He died. Family members weren't interested. His body was placed in Cherry Hill, the Michigan prison cemetery. Another bed was freed.
Doug Tjapkes Humanity for Prisoners 20 W. Muskegon Ave. Muskegon, MI 49440 USA |
30.4.08
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ClaudioGiustiREPORTS (something is in English and something in Italian)
(8/4/08) INTRIGUING (10/4/08) FOUR PRISONERS EXECUTED IN JAPAN (12/4/08) TIBET OLIMPICO (13/4/08)
BELLISSIMO (14/4/08) RAPE (15/4/08) LINKS http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/ http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/secrecy-surrounds-death-penalty-20080415 http://www.cjcj.org/pdf/Death_Penalty_and_Deterrence.pdf
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=2374
(15/4/08) SEI MESI SENZA AMMAZZARE (16/4/08) LETHAL INJECTION ALLOWED (20/4/08) REINTRODUZIONE DELLA PENA DI MORTE (22/4/08)
DIRITTI
A FORLI' (24/4/08) POLIZIOTTI DI QUARTIERE (28/4/08)
GIUSTIZIA USA (28/4/08)
OMICIDI (30/4/08) FUN http://blogs.chron.com/nickanderson/ (30/4/08) PROSSIME PUBBLICAZIONI
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The Pillar of Shame painted Orange Hong Kong, April 30, 3pm: The eight meter tall sculpture The Pillar of Shame was today painted orange by the Chinese Democracy Movement |
17.4.08
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Prisons shift from solitary confinement. New approach eases inmates into society |
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359539_solitary18.html or here
16.4.08
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Supreme Court upholds use of lethal injections here |
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11.4.08
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CAPITAL
X'S " |
4.4.08
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Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges http://www.llrx.com/features/fingerprintevidence.htm or here |
2.4.08
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The Psychological Effects of Imprisonment http://www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc82.html or here |
25.3.08
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ClaudioGiustiREPORTS Consensus
on Counting the Innocent: We Can’t
By
ADAM LIPTAK -
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24.3.08
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Tibet: 5 million told and counting Read here and sign |
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Torture
in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons |
http://www.alternet.org/story/80440/ or here
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22.3.08
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11.3.08
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Institute the Death Penalty Now read it here |
10.3.08
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DON'T
GIVE BUSH THE LAST WORD ON TORTURE!
Read here |
9.3.08
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Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms Bush’s Legacy |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/washington/09policy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin or here
6.3.08
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Death penalty costs Md. more than life term | Sun reporter March 6, 2008 |
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-md.death06mar06,0,7288447.story or here
5.3.08
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The American way: Prison |
http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2008/as-editorials-0305-editorial-8c04w2533.htm or here
3.3.08
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Going to Jail for Being a Democrat: How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got Roved |
29.2.08
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Michigan
spending more on prisons than college here |
27.2.08
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Activist Angela Davis calls for penal reform |
or here
25.2.08
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UN Plans to Resume Capital Punishment Debate
Read it here
23.2.08