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Special Announcements
NEW!!!
ELECTION 2012
COMMENTARIES,
NEWS UPDATES AND EVENTS
Trayvon Martin Family Seeks
FBI Investigation of Killing
by Neighborhood Watchman
Murder
charges filed against
Zimmerman
Update:
George
Zimmerman waives right to
speedy trial
Outrageous:
Florida woman sentenced to
20 years in controversial
warning shot case
Updated
reports of abuse inside juvenile facilities:
http://nospank.net/rcntnews.htm
Crime Mapping in Los
Angeles:
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/
Within South
L.A.'s killing zone, a haven from violence
See also this interactive map of homicides:
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/blog/page/1/
In the News
New!!
Report highlights abuse in for-profit prisons for kids. Click
on "Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" above
Outrage of the Day:
Dozens of Police Evict Georgia Family at
Gunpoint at 3am
Two new reports on Wall Street Crimes:
Lehman E-Mails Show Wall Street Arrogance Led to the Fall and
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?
And check out the
names and faces behind Wall Street collapse:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2008/09/17/photos-ceos-golden-parachutes-from-failed-firms.html
Report on the "working poor," who now constitute 31% of all
families. Click on "Inequality in America" on the left.
Are
Zero Tolerance Policies
Effective in the Schools?
An American Psychological
Association report.
Justice Policy
Institute study:
Education Under Arrest: The Case Against
Police in Schools
(See my commentary.)
ALEC's Latest Actions
Mentally challenged man freed 14 years after false confession
To all who watch CSI programs,
read this:
The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of
Death Investigations Puts the Living At Risk
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