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		<title>Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow&#8212;In Compton Thursday Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Just about the time that POTUS Obama was snarling traffic getting to his starzilla  party in Studio City, civil rights attorney and best selling author Michelle Alexander was rockin&#8217; the house across town in Compton, where she gave a 90-minute speech in front of a large and wildly enthusiastic crowd at a the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Monday Must Reads &amp; 1 Must Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 07:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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with Taylor Walker




SUPREME COURT COULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR HUGE NUMBERS OF DEPORTED IMMIGRANTS TO HAVE THEIR CRIMINAL CASES RECONSIDERED.
In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in a case called Padilla vs. Kentucky, that a an immigrant who is a permanent legal resident but who, after being charged with a felony, agreed to a guilty plea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disasterously Faulty Forensics, Shuttered Courts and Bad Sentencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker

DID A DECADE OF FAULTY FBI FORENSICS RESULT IN HUNDREDS OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS? 
Defendants across the U.S. were left in the dark about the DOJ&#8217;s knowledge of  nine years worth of faulty FBI forensics.  Justice officials defended their actions saying that they were only legally obligated to inform the prosecutors, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of Injustice: Ray Bonner Talks About His &#8220;Labor of Outrage&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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People often ask Pulitzer-winning journalist turned author, Raymond Bonner, if his new book, Anatomy of Injustice:  a Murder Case Gone Wrong&#8212;which took nearly twelve years to reserch and write&#8212;is a labor of love.
&#8220;Actually, it&#8217;s a labor of outrage,&#8221; Bonner said, when he spoke on Sunday afternoon at a LA book party given in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FELON:  The Forever Brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This essay about the label of &#8220;felon,&#8221; by former U.S. Pardon Attorney Margaret Colgate Love, is something that every journalist should read&#8212;and frankly everyone should read period.  It&#8217;s written for The Crime Report.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
 At a recent conference of journalists at John Jay College, I raised an issue I have about language in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning Solitary Confinement &amp; The Plague of Plea Bargains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;IF YOU TREAT PEOPLE LIKE ANIMALS THAT&#8217;S EXACTLY HOW THEY&#8217;LL BEHAVE.&#8221; Christopher B. Epps, Mississippi commissioner of corrections
More inmates are held in solitary confinement in the United States, than in any other nation.
There might be 25,000 people in the U.S. being held in solitary.  But no one&#8217;s really sure.  All we know is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Stevenson&#8217;s TED Talk About Life, Justice, &amp; Having Permission to Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A few days ago, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevensen gave a talk at TED&#8217;s yearly spring event in Long Beach.   
For those of you not terribly familiar, TED is a nonprofit devoted to &#8220;Ideas Worth Spreading.&#8221; It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasers, Pregnant Women &amp; SCOTUS&#8230;.Opening Prosecutors&#8217; Files and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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WILL SEATTLE PD&#8217;S 2004 CASE OF TASING A PREGNANT WOMAN IN A TRAFFIC STOP GO TO THE SUPREME COURT? 
If the LA County Police Chiefs Association has any say in the matter, the Supremes will hear an appeal brought by three Seattle police officers who repeatedly used a Taser on a pregnant woman during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Wrap up: Is Decrypting Covered by the 5th? Baca Agrees With Beck about DLs&#8230;.and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DIGITAL SELF INCRIMINATION 
So, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve been arrested, and you&#8217;ve been told by the cops (or the assistant district attorney, or whomever) that you have to decrypt the hard drive of your laptop, which law enforcement has been unable to hack.  Let&#8217;s also say that you know that the material on said hard [...]]]></description>
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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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