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Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases that could have major implications for the way juvenile offenders are treated in our criminal justice system. Sullivan v.High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors
Is it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to send a juvenile away to prison for life, without the possibility of parole for a crime that does not involve a death? That's the question the Supreme Court ponders Monday. In 2005, the high court struck down the death penalty for juveniles by a 5 to-4 vote.Officers missed kidnap victim on 60 visits to Garrido's home
SACRAMENTO — A blistering new report concludes that state corrections officials failed repeatedly to properly supervise accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido for 10 years, missing numerous opportunities to discover that he had allegedly kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch-area backyard during the entire time California authorities were supposed to be keeping watch over him. Among the mistakes by state parole agents who supervised Garrido from 1999 until his latest arrest in August was a failure to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender, why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard and why agents took no action when they received information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms. A four-page executive summary of the audit by California Inspector General David R.States letting inmates cut even more prison time
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military.African churches denounce children as ‘witches’
Warning, this is a very long article, but I felt like I had to share it. I had no idea nor had ever heard of this problem. I don't think I have words...
Dying in Vein
This is a really long, but interesting article. A three-sentence synopsis: Romell Broom was sentenced to death for raping and killing a 14 year old girl. On the night of his excecution, they could not find a vein to start the drip.An Ill Wind is Breaking For Our President
An Ill Wind is Breaking For Our President T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII Editor at Large, the National Topsider Another Labor Day weekend wafts into Montauk, borne as always upon a chill wind of melancholy; a breeze that ushers in blithe spirits for the coming gay lawn soirees, the final chukkers of the summer polo leagues, the annual Montauk-to-Newport gin barrel regatta. But the selfsame mistral likewise presages season's end, and the maids' ritual packing away of the pastels and seersuckers for the annual migration to the dismally gauche winter quarters of Florida.Fla. officials: Hundreds of animals found in filth
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say they've taken more than 400 animals, including sheep, goats, ducks and even four endangered turtles, from a filthy central Florida home.
Marion County Sheriff's officials investigated Friday and removed dead and living animals from the home of Ileana Verguizas and Andrew Gonzalo Perez.
One more reason not to live in CA.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons5-2009aug05,0,1866042.story From the Los Angeles Times Federal judges order California to release 43,000 inmates Federal judges call conditions in the prisons 'appalling' and unconstitutional. A reduction plan is due by mid-September. By Carol J.Let Paralyzed Law Grad Take Law Exam
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, responding Saturday to an article in The Bee, called it "outrageous" that the State Bar of California is refusing to let a quadriplegic law school graduate take Tuesday's bar exam because of a technical snafu. The governor urged the bar to relent.
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