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

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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.

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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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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
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/br ave-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.”

Source: criminaljustice.change.org
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...

Michele Queyroy
Don't let the title throw you off. It's all about Eyewitness Testimony !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAzaDyae -k
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Link for full video:Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance The argument from ignorance, also ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com
In Chicago, ex-cons face daunting obstacles but get some reason for hope.

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I live in New Haven and I write about criminal justice, so I couldn't help but follow news of the murder of Yale student Annie Le over the last week. This is a terrible, tragic crime and my deepes...

Jose Aguiar criminal justice system can not be the answer for social problems

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This week marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which provides federal funding to states that comply with a set of best practices aimed a...
































