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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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		<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 Push for Clemency for Former Radical Judy Clark&#8230;.and Related Topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The cover story in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine is a profile of Judy Clark, one of a group of militant radicals who, in 1981, tried to rob a Brinks truck and ended up killing two police officers, and one of the Brinks guards, before getting caught.  Clark was one of the getaway drivers [...]]]></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>LA Rolls Out an Are-U-Ready-to Get-Out-of Gangs? Test&#8230;.&amp; other Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This month LA&#8217;s Gang Reduction and Youth Development office (GRYD)&#8212;which runs the city&#8217;s gang intervention and prevention programs&#8212;will roll out a brand new strategy  ostensibly designed to determine how ready a gang member is to get out of his or her gang, and thus how ready they are to receive services that might aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Files Racial Profiling Suit Re: Creepy Incident With 56 Glendale Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The ACLU of So Cal filed a racial profiling lawsuit against Glendale Unified School District, the Glendale Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and LA County Probation on Thursday having to do with a 2010 incident in which 56 Hoover High Hchool students were rounded up and questioned for an hour.
The suit names individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Warren Olney&#8217;s Which Way LA? About Releasing Women Inmates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I was on Warren Olney&#8217;s Which Way LA? on Wednesday night talking about the impending transfer of women inmates to various California counties&#8212;LA most prominently included&#8212;in order to finish their prison sentences at home.  I was on along with California Department of Corrections spokesperson Terry Thornton and Don Thompson from the Associated Press.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads (Views and Listens)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL
The terrible fact is that a staggering 48-percent of all African American males will drop out of high school.  Tavis Smiley explores what amounts to a national tragedy and looks at what to do about it.  
The PBS show debuts Tuesday night in LA, but check listings for your cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Passes Making it a Crime to Have or Smuggle a Prison Cell Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Certainly it is not workable for inmates to have unfettered access to unmonitored phone calls, and contraband cell phones have assuredly been running rife through California state prisons.
The same is also true for Federal lock-ups as this week&#8217;s  WaPo story points out.
Thus it is no surprise that on Thursday, the California legislature sent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stories Behind the Story of the Pelican Bay SHU Hunger Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The best reporting thus far on the inmate hunger strike that originated in the Pelican Bay SHU&#8212;or Special Housing Unit&#8212;came from California Watch reporter Michael Montgomery, whose latest story ran on Tuesday in his series on the strike&#8212;what it meant, who is behind it, and whether it accomplished anything.
One thing you should know is that [...]]]></description>
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