Special Announcements
"Today, more than half of the $80 billion spent annually on
incarceration by government agencies is used to pay the thousands of
vendors that serve the criminal legal system. They are healthcare
providers, food suppliers, and commissary merchants, among others.
And many have devised strategies to extract billions more from the
directly impacted communities supporting their incarcerated loved
ones."
Source:
The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private
Sector Players
CRJ 409 Temporary
file with power points
Shelden's a novelist!!
My first novel. If you like
baseball and romance you might like this: "An
Improbable Rise "
Poem about the
Struggle with Addiction by Ericka Smith
Department of Justice's
Investigation of the Ferguson Police
Department
A must see video: Slavery by Another Name:
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/pbs-film/
Speaking of
Slavery check this out:
America Was Built
On Slavery and It Was Much Worse Than You Might Imagine
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/
Update: LA Homicide:
South Vermont Avenue:
L.A. County’s ‘death alley’
In the News
NEW!
27 children removed from Montana treatment
facility over allegations of 'egregious' abuse
Booker releases plan to address gun violence
People in Alabama Prisons Are Shackled to
Buckets for Days on End
Florida legislators agree to limit felons’
voting rights. Critics call it a new poll tax.
NEW!
A revolutionary development:
San
Francisco calls for juvenile hall closure in favor of
community-based alternatives
Follow-up on Closure
of Juvenile Hall:
http://www.cjcj.org/news/12584
Sacramento
Police Officers Who Shot Unarmed Stephon Clark Won’t Face Charges
Racism is alive and well today:
Alabama Newspaper Publisher Calls On KKK To
Get The Ropes And ‘Clean Up D.C.’
High
Rates of Incarceration Not Linked to Less Crime
Boston police
face lawsuit over listing hats and selfies as gang symbols
Neoliberalism Is
Taking a Steep Toll on an Entire Generation's Mental Health
2018-19 Budget Proposal Would Expand California’s Youth Correctional System at a
Time of Falling Populations
Here's something related to the Flint water
crisis. Water is a world-wide issue:
https://businessconnectworld.com/2017/11/16/water-scarcity-problem-thats-destroying-countries/
Another update on Flint:
Lead in Flint's water linked to decline in
birth rate
It's Boom
Times for Billionaires
More Arrests for Marijuana Than for Violent
Crime Last Year
16 Most Segregated Cities in America
New riots over police shooting raise the
question: What is it about St. Louis?
California Has
a System That Punishes the Poor Through Traffic Violations
Social norms fraying
as hate rises in Trump's America
GOP Congressman On
Suspected Islamic Radicals: 'Kill Them All'
Trump - Totalitarian or Authoritarian?
US anti-Trump
protesters facing decades behind bars
City Wants to
Police Sagging Pants - only in
America!
Catholic nun speaks out on abortion
Jeff Sessions is ordering the Justice
Department to review its policy on marijuana
Dutch
Kids Aren't Stressed Out: What Americans Can Learn From How the
Netherlands Raises Children
UNICEF report on
children's well-being:
https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc11_eng.pdf
Teen Brain Non-Science Debunked
Private Prison
Execs Are Gloating Over Soaring Profits from Trump's Mass
Deportation Agenda
A must read!
Will
Americans Submit to Despotism in an Urge to 'Escape from Freedom'?
Erich Fromm Saw It Coming
Part of what Fromm wrote about:
Trump Supporters Call For 'Liberal Genocide' and Deportation of Jews at Arizona
Rally
Seattle judge derided by Trump known as
conservative jurist
A
Year Later, Unfiltered Flint Tap Water Is Still Unsafe To Drink
Afghan opium
cultivation spikes as eradication efforts collapse
The Lessons of California for Juvenile Justice Reform
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons
Mike Males on the ineffectiveness of youth
curfews
Charter School
Insiders Now Admit Public Education Can't Be Remade In Wall St.'s
Image ;
related story:
Billionaire Funded Charter School Juggernaut
Hits Roadblock in Los Angeles
Obama bans solitary
confinement for juveniles in federal prison
Mike Males
critiques "brain science" argument:
Enough Nonsense on Youthful (In)competence
Kids suffering
in Flint - several stories related to bad water (see my commentary):
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34307-brain-damage-children-suffer-the-consequences-of-anti-regulation-in-michigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/flint-michigan-lead-water-crisis.html?_r=0
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bad-decisions-broken-promises-timeline-flint-water-crisis-n499641
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flint-lead-water-crisis-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-e-mails-reveal-details/
The 2015 Corporate
Rap Sheet
A Child Is Shot To
Death Every Other Day In The U.S.
Gunmaker Smith &
Wesson up almost 100% in 2015
Which
States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook School Massacre
San
Bernardino Massacre:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Related stories:
How They Got Their Guns ;
Weapons in San Bernardino Shootings Were
Legally Obtained ;
In Other Countries, You’re as Likely to Be
Killed by a Falling Object as by a Gun ;
NRA donations to politicians
See how
the GOP responded:
GOP Blocks vote on gun
law:
Tough Talk
and a Cowardly Vote on Terrorism
Mike
Males:
Misdirected Juvenile Justice
Consensus Creates Backwards
Policy
Why Does America
Arrest So Many People—And How Can We Stop It?
Criminals Should
Get Same Leniency as Corporations, Judge Says
We’re now
averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015
Lies My Teacher Told Me About
Christopher Columbus
General Motors will
pay $900 million to settle criminal charges related to its flawed
ignition switch that has been tied to at least 124 deaths.
Texas student says
he’s falsely accused of making ‘hoax bomb’ and then withdraws from
school
Suit
Alleges Scheme in Criminal Costs Borne by New Orleans’s Poor
Everyone should read this:
http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-poverty/ne.html
How Sports, Military,
Police and the Security Industry, Mixed with Trauma, Creates Modern
Dangerous Macho Men
Differing
perceptions of Waco, Baltimore bothering some
Kids
challenge ignorant state legislators! You must watch this!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/students-persist-despite-lawmaker-failings-417136195647
Debra Jean Milke, Arizona woman who spent 22
years on death row, has murder case tossed
Ohio court awards wrongly imprisoned man over
$1 million
4 Numbers That Prove
America Is a Deeply Messed Up Place
State
to close juvenile correctional facility north of Las Vegas
Close Summit
View
Now they want to
reopen it again!
This is no joke !
Proposal to Allow Guns in Day Care Centers and
Schools in Nevada - See my
commentary
8 Logical Fallacies
That Fuel Anti-Science Sentiments
Two new commentaries
by Mike Males addresses myths about kids:
Only Certain Young Victims Matter ;
Millions of
new dollars to fight Chicago "youth violence" -- but no new ideas
6 Companies That
Make Their Money Ensnaring People In Our Prison System
An Update:
Remains of 55 bodies found near former Florida
reform school (for previous stories about this click on
"Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" (above left corner of page) and
scroll down.
How Private
Probation Companies Make Money From the Americans They Trap in the
Criminal Justice System
Excellent piece
my Mike Males:
CNN, “Experts”
Reiterate the Press’s Ethic: It’s OK to Lie about Kids
Study shows
increase in religious-related violence
Walking While Black -
Basketball
players again!
Half of all black men
arrested, study shows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/half-of-blacks-arrested-23_n_4549620.html
Standing While Black:
3 Black Students
Arrested for Waiting for School Bus
16-Year-Old Jailed
at Rikers for 3 Years Without Trial
Two Poverty Related Items addresses big myths about the Poor
Paul Krugman:
A War on the Poor
Dave Johnson:
Six Myths About
Food Stamps
The Public Health Cost of Gun Violence
Use of tough
federal sentencing laws varies widely nationwide
New study reveals that rich kids make huge progress in
educational attainment which poor kids fall further behind:
No Rich Child Left
Behind
Registry
tallies over 2,000 wrongful convictions since 1989
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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