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Ronald Pires
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The dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that it was constitutionally permissible have not had higher homicide rates than states with the death penalty, government statistics and a new survey by The New York Times show.
Ronald Pires

Ronald Pires This is in the vacinity of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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Curtis Flowers, a 39-year-old African-American is to stand trial for an unprecedented sixth time for the murder of four people in Mississippi in 1996. So far, two of his trials have resulted in mistrials and three in convictions that were later overturned.
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Just as important as working on how to bring about drug law reform is thinking about drug regulation will be managed when it happens. The UK's Transform Drug Policy Foundation has done just this, w... read more of this post, An Exit Strategy from the Drug War, at Change.org.
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Ronald Pires
www.nytimes.com
The Supreme Court must keep the international standard in mind when it hears arguments on Monday in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida. The petitioners in both argue that sentencing children to life without the possibility of parole for a nonhomicide violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition ...
Lee

Lee Does anyone know what 27 or 28 States are siding with the Iowa prosecution in the defendant framing case before the US Supreme Court?

November 8, 2009 at 8:55pm · Report
Ronald Pires
Ronald Pires
Glad to see you on Criminal Justice Reform, Lee.
November 8, 2009 at 9:18pm
Lee
Lee
Hey, Ronald, you're also invited to join Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery.
November 8, 2009 at 9:20pm
Ronald Pires
www.nytimes.com
There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. Seventy-seven are in Florida.
Ronald Pires
www.csmonitor.com
Two African-American men wrongly imprisoned for 25 years filed a lawsuit against prosecutors for fabricating evidence against them. The Supreme Court hears the case Wednesday.
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Beth

Beth Hey this is very interesting. I am the web editor of a blog for the nationally recognized alternative sentencing program, Changing Lives Through Literature: http://cltlblog.wordpress.com/
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Robert LeBlanc is a Ph.D. candidate in literature at the University of Rhode Island. His dissertation research focuses on notions of publicness and subjectivity in Christian leftist texts. He has taught writing and literature courses at the college level.
Steven Dunkel

Steven Dunkel Jim Webb named one of The Atlantic’s “Brave Thinkers” for taking on the nation’s neglected prison system.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911/brave-thinkers2/22
Webb's Atlantic Interview on Criminal Justice Reform
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Name: Jim Webb Job: Senator from Virginia Why he’s brave: He’s taking on the nation’s neglected prison system. Quote: “I think you can be a law-and-order leader and still understand that the criminal justice system as we understand it today is broken.”
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We're launching an exciting new joint project here on the change.org criminal justice blog, and we need your help. Together with spot.us, the crowd-funded journalism website, San Francisco's KALW ...
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An Arkansas appeals court this week ruled that Kenneth Riley's rights weren't violated when a prosecutor excluded a juror in part because she's black. This is just another example of our court sys...