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		<title>Federal Judge Calls War on Drugs A Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A FOURTH CIRCUIT JUDGE GETS FED UP
On June 19, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole was indeed the legally correct one for Tony Gregg, a Richmond, Virginia cocaine addict and sometimes penny ante drug dealer.
The appeals court ruling came about after the federal judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Million Women v. Walmart&#8230;&amp; 9000 Women v. Pfizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DID WALMART DISCRIMINATE AGAINST A MILLION WOMEN?
It&#8217;s an really, REALLY unfun month for big corporations trying to dodge lawsuits from gaggles of angry women.
First Walmart.  Monday&#8217;s New York Times editorial explains the matter well.
For nine years, Wal-Mart has fought to stave off a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company has long discriminated against its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron Douglas: Was 5 Years too Short?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday, lawyers for 31-year old Cameron Douglas,  the son of actor Michael Douglas, cut a deal with federal prosecutors for charges that the younger Douglas had moved quite a bit of meth and some cocaine over a three year period, plus been caught with heroin when he was supposed to be under house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murder City:  Chuck Bowden &amp; Cuidad Juarez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The murder rate in Cuidad Juarez exceeds that of Baghdad.
And there is no one better equipped to take you to the heart of the disintegration of this once lively, now deadly city than Tuscon-based journalist/writer Charles Bowden who has been immersing himself in Cuidad Juarez off and on for 20 years.  
The result is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe &#8220;National Crack the Crack Day&#8221; Instead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, yes, yesterday was Earth Day. 
  But I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be happy to know, that today is a National Call-In Day that is a big part of Crack the Disparity National Month of Advocacy&#8212;- a month-long coordinated push to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

Unfortunately for the organizers&#8212;and those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use a Kid for a Drug Sting&#8230;Maybe Go to Jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This is a real contender for this year&#8217;s bad judgment Olympics.  How do we hate what these school administrator&#8217;s did?  Let us count the ways.
Here&#8217;s the story (Jason Song of the LA Times reports):
Porter Middle School administrators believed a boy was dealing pot on campus. So they allegedly sent a student to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PROPOSITIONS:  Prop. 6 &#8211; A Poison Pill for California</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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LAST WEEK I ASSIGNED some of my smart USC students to each write a 300-word news story explaining one of the propositions that will appear on the California ballot on Tuesday.  
Below you&#8217;ll find clips from the resulting commentaries, with still more to come tomorrow.
(USC student Holly Villamagna&#8217;s assessment of Prop.  11, posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mexico:  A Hammer Alone Won&#8217;t Cure Gang Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Bruce Riordan is the director of anti-gang operations for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo&#8217;s office, and a former federal prosecutor.  In other words, the guy is not anybody&#8217;s bleeding heart when it comes to gangs.  
Yet, he is a nuanced thinker on the subject, and together with Delgadillo, Riordan has written a thoughtful article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracking Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Sunday, the Washington Post Magazine ran an excellent cover story about one man out of the thousands upon thousands of low-level offenders who have served or are serving very long sentences for dealing crack cocaine.  Here&#8217;s how the story begins:

ON HIS 18TH DAY OF FREEDOM, Michael Short awakened before dawn. In prison, corrections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Drug War&#8217;s War on Students</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/the-drug-wars-war-on-students/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/the-drug-wars-war-on-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In 2001 Education Week told this story about the Bush Administration&#8217;s decision to be hard core in its enforcement of one part of the Higher Education Act.

When police found a small amount of marijuana residue in her car the day before her 19th birthday, Marisa Garcia was handed a ticket and sent on her way. [...]]]></description>
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