Tag: incarceration
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December 08, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
A study by the Justice Policy Institute shows that, although blacks and whites possess and sell illegal drugs at about the same rate, blacks are ten times as likely to be sent to jail on drug charges ( . . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Juvenile Justice –An Oxymoron
by Erica C.
I sit propped up in bed with my computer. It is very early on Sunday morning. My demons won’t let me sleep. It is cold in the house and I put a fleece . . . more
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April 24, 2008 08:35 AM EDT --
[ The following was sent to me by an old buddy who lives & works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Jim is a reporter & journalist of many eyars experience. He is one of the few journalists I trust! Here is an . . . more
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January 12, 2006 06:37 PM EST --
(see nervous) for part I
I cut my car engine and wait here at the curb beside the corner grocery.
It looks abandoned, this store, with boards where the windows should be, no ads and a couple of bricks . . . more
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . . more
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October 19, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus: "Your words are lies, Sir."
Keith Olbermann has been calling it like it is. His "Special Comments" are indeed special because no . . . more
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February 05, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
Search Continues for Arkansas Mamma Who Walked Out of the Booger Hollow Jail
By Daisy Mae Loon
Booger Hollow, Editor
Booger Hollow, AR - Judge Lynch, Deputies and Sheriff Hogg are continuing to search . . . more
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March 26, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Years ago I worked as a county temp doing anything from taking photos in the License Center to riding along on transports as a sheriff’s matron for our local Sheriff’s Department.
A sheriff’s . . . more
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September 15, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
It's hard to keep up with who has been tagged, by whom, how many times and so forth. Might you come forth please, identify yourselves and your tagger(s), as well as the number of times you have . . . more
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November 01, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
( subtitled: the clerical error and the convict )
"A MAN'S ERRORS ARE HIS PORTALS OF DISCOVERY" - James Joyce
I remember my year as a convict. I . . . more
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March 29, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
Natural repellents for pests should be studied. You do not find flies at the beach because of the calcium carbonate in abundance.
It seems that the voice of a mosquito is in the note . . . more
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October 16, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
D o w n s i z e r - D i s p a t c h <hr>The President signs the kangaroo court, pro-torture, gut the Bill-of-Rights, Torture/Tribunal bill tomorrow (Tuesday, October 17). It's election season, . . . more
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March 19, 2007 04:06 AM EDT --
JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL-From Mayberry’s local wino who took up residence in a cell especially kept for him to cable television’s OZ, the “free world” is shown a side of life that . . . more
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August 13, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
I started writing when I was 11. It was the only way that I could deal with my feelings. I always felt like I never belonged anywhere. I often wondered if I was born the wrong sex, the wrong race, at . . . more
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . . more
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November 06, 2006 12:39 PM EST --
This article was in yesterdays Miami Herald, A paper that supported most of the conservatives in their election picks, much to my chagrin, but at least they practice freedom of speech and published . . . more
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January 24, 2006 04:59 PM EST --
Nervous . . . more
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August 12, 2007 04:26 PM EDT --
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" screamed the large man standing at the next urinal.
"Just minding my own business," I said as I turned my head to face the wall directly in front . . . more
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June 08, 2006 02:38 PM EDT --
A major report finds America's prisons in a crisis state, and the Austin American-Statesman reports the problems should not be a surprise in Texas. The report is titled, "Confronting Confinement." . . . more
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December 11, 2007 04:25 AM EST --
Barren wasteland of existence
The echoes of silence reverberate
Deafening, droning
Constant reminder of my penance.
Dragging myself through daily life
The burden of choices, . . . more
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