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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; criminal justice</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>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>California Prison Pop. Dropped by 8,000&#8212;So, Do We Have a Crime Wave Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDCR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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NOTE:   LIGHT POSTING TODAY&#8212;DUE (HAPPILY) TO HOLIDAY SLOWDOWN&#8230;.BUT&#8230;.

NEW JAILS/LASD STORY COMING TOMORROW


ANYBODY GOT EARLY SIGN POSTS ON CRIME AND REALIGNMENT?
KPPC&#8217;S Julie Small reports that California&#8217;s prison population has dropped by 8000, mostly in response to California&#8217;s realignment strategy that began on Oct 1 and has resulted in the transfer of thousands of prisoners [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Innocence]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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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>Abusive Spousal Support&#8230;.Realignment Panic&#8230;&amp; the GOP on Criminal Justice</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/courts/2011/admin/abusive-spousal-support-realignment-panic-the-gop-on-criminal-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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CALIFORNIA WOMAN FORCED TO PAY HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND SPOUSAL SUPPORT?  REALLY? 
What is this judge thinking?  ABC news has the report.  Here are the details:
She was forced to have sex with him, and now she&#8217;s being forced to pay his bills.
Crystal Harris of Carlsbad, Calif., had been financially supporting her unemployed, abusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deborah Peagler Story, ICE &amp; Foster Care&#8230;. and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/the-deborah-peagler-story-ice-foster-care-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<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>Initiative to Revise 3-Strikes  Takes First Step Toward Nov. 2012 Ballot</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/immigration/2011/admin/initiative-to-revise-3-strikes-takes-first-step-toward-nov-2012-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Stanford Law School&#8217;s Three Strikes Project, along with a group of Stanford lawyers and other supporters, hope to get an initiative on the November 2012 ballot that would amend California&#8217;s Three-Strikes law&#8212;the harshest in the nation&#8212; so that it is aimed at dangerous repeat offenders, not hapless former thieves who, on impulse, snatch a floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at Our Broken System of Criminal Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens reviews &#8220;The Collapse of American Criminal Justice&#8221; by William Stuntz in the November 10 issue of the New York Review of Books.

Stuntz, the highly respected Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University who died this year before the book&#8217;s publication,  writes about, as his publisher [...]]]></description>
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