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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>On The Young Turks Network Show &#8211; the Point&#8230;Talking Death Penality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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NOTE:  I don&#8217;t know why the video vanished between last night and this morning.  I&#8221;m at the jails commission right.  Will figure it out when I get back.

The Young Turks, which is partnered with YouTube, is billed as the worlds largest online news show, and has gained further popularity now that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens Prevent Prison Return, The OC Jacks School Funds,  and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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With Taylor Walker 


GARDENING INMATES LESS LIKELY TO COME BACK TO LOCK UP
A growing number of corrections facilities across the US are surprised to find that inmates who participate in gardening programs are significantly less likely to return to prison than the national average predicts.
Pattie Baker writing for Youth Today, has the rest of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many People Locked Up Say Americans In New Survey, Antonio Goes to D.C. for Gangs, Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Starting today, the very smart and talented Taylor Walker is helping me gather stories.  Eventually Taylor will be doing a story-gathering and commentary section of her own.  But right now, she&#8217;s helping me curate and write these multi-story posts.  More about&#8212;and from&#8212;Taylor Walker soon.

NEARLY 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY THAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD Cuts, What KCET Found Inside Children&#8217;s Court, How the CDCR is Changing Methods&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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LAUSD BOARD GRITS TEETH&#8230;.THEN SLASHES AND BURNS:  VOTES TO CUT ALL ADULT SCHOOLS&#8230;.AND A LOT MORE, HOPES THAT A PARCEL TAX &#38; UNION CONCESSIONS WILL SAVE ALL
The LA Times Stephen Ceasar reports:
The Los Angeles Board of Education approved a preliminary, worst-case $6-billion budget Tuesday, a plan that would eliminate thousands of jobs, close all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solitary Confinement in AZ Extra Cruel &amp; Unusual says ACLU Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday, the ACLU filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) houses thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement conditions so harsh they violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
This is from Tuesday&#8217;s statement:
While other states also use solitary confinement, Arizona has added features that seem designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Short Takes:  SCOTUS &amp; Searches, SHUs, Teacher Misconduct &amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SUPREME COURT TOSSES OUT CASE AGAINST LOS ANGELES SHERIFF&#8217;S DEPUTIES
The AP has the story.  Here&#8217;s a clip:
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that California police officers cannot be sued because they used a warrant that may have been defective to search a woman&#8217;s house.
The high court threw out the lawsuit against Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Must Reads:  Solitary Confinement, Citizen&#8217;s United &amp; Criminal Lying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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INSIDE THE GRAY BOX &#8211; THE INCONVENIENT FACTS ABOUT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN AMERICA
Right now approximately 80,000 Americans are living in solitary confinement in this country&#8217;s prisons.  Many of them have no record of violence either in or out of prison, says a new investigative report by The Dart Society.
Here&#8217;s a clip from the report, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Discrepancies in Sentences for Teenage Killers, Juvie Prisons&#8230;.and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Once again in California, those in the state with any kind of experience and/or knowledge of juvenile justice, are trying to persuade California lawmakers to please, please, please pass a law that gives kids sentenced to prison for life a chance&#8212;just a chance, no kind of guarantee&#8212;to one day make the case that they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Justice Round Up: Old Prisoners, Why LA&#8217;s Media Should Ride Buses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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NEW STUDY SAYS AGING PRISONERS FASTEST GROWING LOCKED-UP POPULATION 
The fact that aging prisoners are a growing issue has been reported on a lot lately as reporters and policy makers start to snap awake to the fact that locking up more people for longer is going to eventually produce a bunch of old guy (and [...]]]></description>
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