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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; crime and punishment</title>
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		<title>The New Yorker: Why Do We Lock-Up So Many People?&#8230;&amp; Other Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Most Americans honestly don&#8217;t want to spend much time, energy or emotion thinking about people in jail or prison&#8212;unless, by chance they have a family member who is locked up.  
We harp on the issue here at WitnessLA since criminal justice is, after all, central to the mission of the site.   But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lifelong Price of a Felony Conviction&#8212;&amp; the Cost to the Rest of Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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For vast numbers of Americans who have  been convicted of a felony, the punishment has no end point.
This essay in the New York Times by  Carnegie Mellon professor, Alfred Blumstein, and University of Maryland criminologist, Kiminori Nakamura, gets to the heart of this issue that we as a nation can simply no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Prosecutors, Bad Pardons, Bad Law&#8230;&amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SCOTUS REVERSES MURDER 1995 CONVICTION OF NEW ORLEANS MAN&#8212;ANOTHER CASE OF BAD PROSECUTOR BEHAVIOR 
NY Times&#8217; Adam Liptak has the story involving another Deputy DA who decided it wasn&#8217;t all that necessary to  turn over all the evidence in the then-high profile murder case.
Here&#8217;s a clip:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the conviction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imprisoned for 18 Years, the West Memphis 3 Are Freed by the Power of Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Eighteen years ago, three West Memphis teenagers were falsely accused of the 1993 murders of a trio of 8-year-old boys, even though there was no physical  evidence to tie them to the killings.  All the prosecution had was a coerced then recanted confession from one teen, Jessie Misskelley, a trailer park boy with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At $120 Million a Year, Can California Afford the Death Penality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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During his 8 years in office, former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti had no problem telling his prosecutors to push hard to get death sentences for those he thought deserved it.  Now Garcetti is one of those leading the charge for a ballot proposition to replace the state&#8217;s capital punishment statute with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence Prevention: Barking With the Choir and Standing With the Despised</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Nearly 20 years ago The California Wellness Foundation was one of the first organizations of consequence  to promote the recognition that violence was not merely a crime problem.  It was a serious public health issue. 
As part of their focus on the topic, every year Wellness puts on a Violence Prevention Conference at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Short Takes: Medical Parole, Drugs &amp; IQ, and New Crime Theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 ONE OF THE FIRST 24 INMATES RELEASED ON SO-CALLED MEDICAL PAROLE MAY HAVE PAROLE REVOKED DUE TO LEWD GESTURING 
 Three-striker Peter Post was a burglar who unwisely kept burgling and kept getting caught. After convictions in 1992 and 2000, his conviction in 2002 got him a third strike and 31 years to life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deborah Peagler Story, ICE &amp; Foster Care&#8230;. and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;CRIME AFTER CRIME&#8221; &#8211; THE STRUGGLE TO FREE BATTERED WOMAN, DEBORAH PEAGLER 
The feature-length documentary film, &#8220;Crime After Crime,&#8221; traces the legal battle to free Deborah Peagler from a California prison 20 years after she was connected to the murder of the man who had abused her and forced her into prostitution. 
It premiered Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Webb&#8217;s National Criminal Justice Bill Headed for Senate Vote&#8230;and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/jim-webbs-national-criminal-justice-bill-coming-up-for-senate-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Two and a half years ago, Senator Jim Webb proposed some excellent (and low cost) criminal justice reform legislation known as the National Criminal Justice Commission Act.  The bill garnered lots of praise at the time but then, last year, after passing through the House and making it out of the Senate judiciary committee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads:  Jails, SCOTUS and Prohibition&#8230;.and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SHERIFF BACA HOLDS &#8220;TOWN HALL-STYLE MEETING INSIDE MEN&#8217;S CENTRAL JAIL
It is welcome news that Sheriff Lee Baca talked with inmates at Men&#8217;s Central Jail in a town hall-style meeting on Saturday and asked those at the meeting to be candid about what was wrong at CJ.
At the same time, the move doesn&#8217;t in any way [...]]]></description>
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