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		<title>Friday Round-Up: Miramonte Gets Messier, Private Prisons Lose Biz&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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LAUSD PAID $40 GRAND TO SETTLE WITH MIRAMONTE TEACHER MARK BERNDT, BUT PUT BLOTCH ON RECORD OF INNOCENT MIRAMONTE TEACHERS.  REALLY.
KPCC&#8217;S Tami Abdollah with Shirley Jahad broke the $40 K settlement story and the opening paragraph pretty much says it all:
The Los Angeles Unified School District agreed last June to pay about $40,000 to [...]]]></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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		<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 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>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>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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		<title>AB 9, the CA Juvenile Life Bill Passes Hurdle  &amp; Hunger Strikes Make Progres</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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FIRST THE LATEST NEWS ON AB 9

The AP has the story:

A controversial bill headed for a vote in California has stirred up conversation again about whether life sentences for juveniles need to be re-examined.
Under the state bill, which received a key vote Wednesday to allow it to head to the Assembly floor for a vote, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Legal Must Reads:  New CA Supreme Justice Goodwin Liu&#8230;Asylum&#8230;and Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A trio of legal and justice stories that you shouldn&#8217;t miss:

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JERRY BROWN&#8217;S APPOINTMENT OF GOODWIN LIU TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
In his Sunday column, the Sac Bee&#8217;s Dan Morain has an interesting take on why Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s recent appointment of Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court is important&#8212;to him and [...]]]></description>
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