tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932187354416771042024-03-21T00:38:24.335-07:00DEEP INSIGHT FROM THE CORNER OF EXPERIENCEPROJECT REBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17982600210524112264noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693218735441677104.post-85986073704667795162014-05-21T09:37:00.004-07:002014-05-21T09:37:54.073-07:00<h1 id="article_title" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Choosing Prisons Over Hospitals: How We Treat the Mentally Ill</span></h1>
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The United States is stepping up to house the mentally ill, but in the worst way possible: prison. According to a startling <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/record-numbers-mentally-ill-prisons-and-jails" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mother Jones report</a>, for every one mentally ill patient undergoing treatment at a hospital, there are ten more mentally ill people incarcerated. That’s not treating the problem, that’s just stashing away the problem.</div>
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Only a couple of centuries ago, locking up mentally ill people was standard practice. However, since then, advancements in psychology and health services have made it clear that there are ways to treat and/or medicate people afflicted with mental illness so that they may be reintegrated into society. The fact that we know how to handle these issues and still choose to throw patients in jail rather than a hospital is a sad commentary on our priorities.</div>
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Two unfortunate trends have collided to create this mess. First, there is a severe lack of mental health resources available. Despite the fact that we understand the scope of the problem, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/mental-illness-the-worlds-most-neglected-health-problem.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">money is not earmarked to address the problem</a>, leaving mentally ill citizens without treatment. Second, the <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">for-profit prison system demands a large number of inmates</a> to function. As a result, people who do not need to spend time in prison are sentenced to be there anyway.</div>
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Interestingly, though, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/record-numbers-mentally-ill-prisons-and-jails" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">as Mother Jones points out</a>, it’s not even a practical approach for the state to take from a financial standpoint. Washington state found that its mentally ill inmates cost them more than three times more to house than a typical prisoner, while Florida realized that it was paying to keep mentally ill inmates in jail twice as long due to perceived “bad behaviors.” It’d be understandable – not conscionable, but understandable – if the courts were sending the mentally ill to jail in order to save money, but since it just winds up costing the government more than providing them with adequate hospitalization, it’s a flawed plan on multiple levels.</div>
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It’s not as if people within the system aren’t attempting to make reform happen, though. A Virginia Beach sheriff volunteered to give up some of the state money allotted to his jails so it could be reallocated to mental health hospitals instead. His hope was that doing so would allow some of his sickest inmates to get the care they actually needed, rather than the care they received in his prison.</div>
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Other prison employees vented their frustrations over being unprepared to help inmates with their mental illnesses. They describe countless instances of self-harm and disruptions. A Mississippi deputy spoke of one prisoner who “tore up a damn padded cell that’s indestructible, and… ate the cover of the damn padded cell. We took his clothes and gave him a paper suit to wear and he ate that. When they fed him food in a Styrofoam container, he ate that. We had his stomach pumped six times, and he’s been operated on twice.”</div>
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Alas, even mental health advocates are skeptical that Congress will provide the necessary funding to provide more hospital alternatives to prisons, given the divisive political climate. Therefore, one of the best temporary solutions is to help the mentally ill from appearing in courtrooms in the first place. <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/training-police-about-mental-illness-can-help-reduce-the-prison-population.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Research shows that training police officers</a> for as little as one day about mental illness helps to reduce the prison population. Since 10 percent of calls to the police are to report the actions of someone dealing with a mental illness, this knowledge can help the police to handle situations without always concluding in an arrest.</div>
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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. agreed to stop automatically rejecting job applicants with criminal records and to evaluate individual situations as <a density="sparse" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/new-york/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">New York</a>’s attorney general expanded a crackdown on discrimination against ex-offenders.</div>
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Under New York law, employers are barred from disqualifying any prospective hire simply on the basis of a criminal history. Such blanket discrimination is illegal in several states and cities and may also violate federal civil rights law, according to the New York-based National Employment Law Project. A company can still look at the nature of a past crime and the responsibilities of a particular job in considering an applicant.</div>
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The household goods retailer, which operates more than 1,400 stores across the U.S. with 62 in New York, will pay a $125,000 in the settlement, including $40,000 in restitution to applicants unlawfully denied jobs, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office said.</div>
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“This agreement puts employers on notice that slamming the door on job seekers based on past conduct without deciding whether that conduct is relevant to the current job is not only wrong -– it’s unlawful,” Schneiderman said in a statement.</div>
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The attorney general’s office said it investigated the retailer after learning that a human resources manager had disseminated information at a job fair stating that the company didn’t hire individuals with felony convictions. The company agreed to modify its practices in the state and conduct training to comply with New York law, Schneiderman’s office said.</div>
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The settlement doesn’t include an admission of wrongdoing, Leah Drill, a spokeswoman for the Union, New Jersey-based company, said in an e-mailed statement.</div>
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“Bed Bath & Beyond is committed to complying with the laws and regulations governing our business, including state and federal employment law,” she said. “We are in agreement with the attorney general that employment opportunities should remain open to individuals with criminal histories that have been rehabilitated.”</div>
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Federal agencies and New York have stepped up enforcement of protections for job-seekers with criminal histories, Madeline Neighly, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, said. The center estimates that 70 million U.S. adults have criminal records.</div>
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“Excluding anyone with a criminal history from employment undermines public safety,” Neighly said in an e-mail. “Employment is key to reducing recidivism and strengthening families and community involvement.”</div>
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Last month, Schneiderman’s office reached settlements with four of the country’s largest job applicant background check companies, HireRight Inc., First Advantage, General Information Services Inc. and Sterling Infosystems, in which they agreed not to issue automatic rejection letters when convictions were identified and to defer to individual assessment from employers.</div>
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Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of diagnostic testing, agreed last year to reform its hiring practices under a deal with Schneiderman’s office. Oswego, New York, also agreed last year to modify a local ban on individuals with felony convictions from obtaining taxi licenses, according to the attorney general’s office.</div>
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Dolgencorp LLC, which does business as<a class="web_ticker" density="sparse" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/DG:US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" ticker="DG:US" title="Get Quote" topic_url="http://topics.bloomberg.com/dollar-general-corp/">Dollar General (DG)</a>, and BMW Manufacturing Co. in 2013 alleging that their criminal background policies for employees and job applicants violated federal civil rights law by disproportionately targeting black job seekers.</div>
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Dolgencorp and BMW said in court filings that they didn’t engage in unlawful hiring practices. The cases are pending in federal courts in Chicago and Spartanburg, <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/south-carolina/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">South Carolina</a>, respectively.</div>
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To contact the reporter on this story: Christie Smythe in Brooklyn at <a density="mailto" href="mailto:csmythe1@bloomberg.net" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Send E-mail">csmythe1@bloomberg.net</a></div>
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How the Connecticut Department of Children & Families is failing a trans girl of color</h1>
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Jessica* is a 16 year-old transgender girl. Shehas been in and out of the foster care and juvenile justice systems since early childhood, surviving unthinkable trauma and demonstrating resilience and strength. As a ward of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), DCF is her legal parent and guardian, responsible for her care and well-being. Jessica was also in the custody of the juvenile justice side of DCF following a delinquency adjudication; she has never been convicted of a crime or faced adult criminal charges in Connecticut. Despite this, DCF is acting directly contrary to federal law and transferring her into the adult prison system without any criminal charges or convictions. It has been 14 years since DCF last invoked this exceptional and <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/04/11/why-connecticut-sent-transgender-teen-adult-prison" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">legally questionable</a> procedure to transfer a young person into the adult prison system without charges.</div>
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On Tuesday, April 8, a Judge granted DCF’s request to move Jessica into an adult prison. When the transfer took place, DCF declined to comment. Since then, the agency has exaggerated the details of Jessica’s prior assaults, depicting her as a violent monster. The truth is she is a survivor of trauma and institutional violence. She is a trans girl of color failed by every system she has encountered.</div>
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The incident that triggered the transfer into DOC custody involved an alleged assault by Jessica on a staff member at a hospital in Massachusetts. The facts surrounding the case are unclear, but the criminal charges against Jessica were dropped and a staff member involved in the incident was fired. Yet, following the alleged assault Jessica was placed in near isolation in a boys’ facility. As punishment, they refused to house her with girls even though DCF had previously agreed that as a girl it would not be safe to house her with boys under any circumstances. She remained there during a six-week hearing in which experts and other witnesses testified about the dangers of transferring her into an adult prison.</div>
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The data is clear that youth, particularly transgender youth, are among the most vulnerable in prison settings. In <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/226680.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2005</a>, for example, youth under the age of 18 made up less than 1 percent of all prisoners in US jails, yet comprised 21 percent of all victims of substantiated incidents of sexual abuse involving prisoners. The <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/226680.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC)</a>, which was convened by Congress to study the problem of prison sexual assault, found that “juveniles in confinement are much more likely than incarcerated adults to be sexually abused, and they are particularly at risk when confined with adults. To be effective, sexual abuse prevention, investigation, and treatment must be tailored to the developmental capacities and needs of youth.”</div>
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Now, in contravention of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, the Connecticut Constitution and the Constitution of the United States, Jessica is being held in an adult women’s prison. By court order, the Connecticut Department of Corrections was given 72 hours to determine whether to house Jessica in a men’s or women’s prison. As of now, they have agreed to keep her at <a href="http://www.ct.gov/doc/cwp/view.asp?q=265454" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">York Correctional Institution</a>, a high-security facility for adult women. Jessica has maintained that under no circumstances should she be sent to a facility for men. DOC’s decision is a positive development in an otherwise horrific situation. But ultimately, Jessica should be sent back to DCF custody where she can receive services instead of punishment.</div>
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The Commissioner of DCF, Joette Katz, has the power to take Jessica back into custody without going to court and without further compromising her health and well-being. In the adult system she is likely to face an increased risk of sexual violence, fewer program and educational opportunities, and prolonged isolation for her own “protection.”</div>
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This story is a tragic example of how so-called justice systems fail transgender young people, particularly transgender young people of color. When I spoke to Jessica a few weeks ago, she told me that she was finding strength from the examples of <a href="http://janetmock.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Janet Mock</a> and <a href="http://www.lavernecox.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3c0e5c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laverne Cox</a>. She wanted more than anything to ensure that the injustice she was experiencing would not be repeated in the future. We have an obligation to tell her story and make visible the violence of our incarceration systems.</div>
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There has already been significant public pressure on DCF, DOC and the Connecticut Governor to transfer Jessica back to DCF custody but we need the pressure to continue. Systems of incarceration perpetuate violence by removing decision makers from accountability and keeping their mechanisms of injustice away from public scrutiny. We can support Jessica by calling on DCF and the Governor to transfer her back to a DCF facility for girls, and particularly for people in Connecticut, calling on elected officials to take action against the injustice happening in your state.</div>
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Man, 23, who was sentenced to SIX life sentences plus 118 years as a teen for armed robbery that hurt no one asks for last ditch pardon</h1>
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<li><b style="font-size: 1.4em;">Travion Blount's lawyers claim the Norfolk man should serve no more than 20 years for his part in the September 2006 robbery</b></li>
<li><b style="font-size: 1.4em;">The then-15-year-old raided a house party with two 18-year-olds who received 10-year and 13-year sentences in plea deals</b></li>
<li><b style="font-size: 1.4em;">Blount refused a plea agreement and was found guilty by a Norfolk jury</b></li>
<li><b style="font-size: 1.4em;">A Circuit Court judge then handed down what many believe is the longest sentence in the country given to a teenage offender for a crime that wasn't murder</b></li>
<li><b id="ext-gen94" style="font-size: 1.4em;">He has been in Wallens Ridge State Prison, a maximum-security facility in Big Stone Gap, since 2007</b></li>
<li><b id="ext-gen93" style="font-size: 1.4em;">His family is now asking for a conditional pardon from outgoing Governor Bob McDonnell</b></li>
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<span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published" style="font-size: 0.9em;"><span class="article-timestamp-label" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">PUBLISHED:</span> 15:25 EST, 2 January 2014 </span>| <span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated" style="font-size: 0.9em;"><span class="article-timestamp-label" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">UPDATED:</span> 15:42 EST, 2 January 2014</span></div>
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A young Virginia man who, as a juvenile, was given six life sentences plus 118 years in prison for an armed robbery in which no one was hurt is asking for a conditional pardon from outgoing Governor Bob McDonnell.</div>
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Travion Blount's lawyers claim he should serve no more than 20 years for his part in the September 2006 robbery, which he carried out as a 15-year-old with two 18-year-olds who received 10-year and 13-year sentences in plea deals.<br /></div>
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Blount, who is now 23, refused a plea agreement and was found guilty by a Norfolk jury. A Circuit Court judge then handed down what many believe is the longest sentence in the country given to a teenage offender for a crime that wasn't murder.</div>
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According to <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2013/12/teen-prison-life-asks-mcdonnell-shorter-term" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Virginia Pilot</a>, the teens raided a house party, stealing cellphones, a small amount of cash and marijuana, records show. No shots were fired and Blount injured no one. The three were quickly caught and charged by police. <br /></div>
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'There is no arguing that the crime committed was trivial,' the man's appeal for a conditional pardon reads, adding that the teen was 'naive and unduly influenced' by the much older boys.<br /></div>
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'What is arguable is the fact that, out of three individuals who committed the crime, only one person will die in prison.'</div>
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A <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/15-years-old-sentenced-to-118-years-and-6-life-sentences-for-a-robbery-we-are-seeking-justice-for-travion-blount" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Change.org</a> online petition has been set up on Blount's behalf to lobby state officials for a new sentence.<br /></div>
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Monique Santiago, an accountant from Hampton, read about Blount's case and thought the punishment was excessive.</div>
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Longest sentence: Blount, who is now 23, refused a plea agreement and was found guilty by a Norfolk jury. A Circuit Court judge then handed down what many believe is the longest sentence in the country given to a teenage offender for a crime that wasn't murder</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'</span>It just blew my mind,' Santiago told The Pilot. 'He should be punished, but to this extreme? No.'<br /></div>
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A spokesperson for McDonnell said the governor was aware of the case and the request was 'working its way through the normal process.'</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">Across this country today, an estimated 5.8 million Americans—5.8 million of our fellow citizens—are prohibited from voting because of current or previous felony convictions. That’s more than the individual populations of 31 U.S. states. Because of the racial disparities in our penal system, African-American and Latino men are vastly disproportionately denied the right to vote.</span>People of Color Are Losing Their Right to Vote<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">People of Color Are Losing Their Right to Vote </span></b><br />
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“I found myself standing in front of railroad tracks in South Florida. I was waiting on the train to come so I could jump in front of it and end my life.” So recounted Desmond Meade, describing his life nine years ago. He was homeless, unemployed, recently released from prison and addicted to drugs and alcohol. The train never came. He crossed the tracks and checked himself into a substance-abuse program. He went on to college, and now is just months away from receiving his law degree.</div>
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Meade, however, will not be able to practice law in Florida. As a former felon, he cannot join the bar. That is one of his rights that has been stripped, permanently, by Florida’s draconian laws. In a democracy, if one wants to change a law, you vote for lawmakers who will represent your views. Yet, as an ex-felon in Florida, Meade also has lost the right to vote for the rest of his life.</div>
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It’s called “felony disenfranchisement,” and is permanent in 11 states: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming. It’s enforced in differing degrees, like a patchwork, across the U.S. In 13 states and the District of Columbia, you get your rights back upon release from prison. In others, you have to get through your probation or parole. In Maine and Vermont, prisoners retain the right to vote, even while incarcerated.</div>
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the issue this week at a legal symposium at Georgetown University:</div>
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“Across this country today, an estimated 5.8 million Americans—5.8 million of our fellow citizens—are prohibited from voting because of current or previous felony convictions. That’s more than the individual populations of 31 U.S. states.” Close to 6 million Americans, denied the basic right to vote. Because of the racial disparities in our penal system, African-American and Latino men are vastly disproportionately denied the right to vote. Holder continued, “The current scope of these policies is not only too significant to ignore—it is also too unjust to tolerate.”</div>
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The Georgetown event was co-sponsored by The Leadership Conference, a coalition of civil-rights, legal and human-rights groups. Last September, the group released a report titled “Democracy Imprisoned.” In it, the group writes, “Florida’s disenfranchisement rate remains the highest and most racially disparate in the United States.” It is no coincidence that this key swing state is home to more than 1 million of the nation’s nearly 6 million disenfranchised.</div>
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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist eased the laws, making the application for the reinstatement of rights automatic. But in 2011, his successor, Republican Gov. Rick Scott, imposed a waiting period of at least five years for anyone to apply to the clemency board. Meade told us on the “Democracy Now!” news hour: “Even after applying, the processing time for the application takes upwards of six years. So, in reality, an individual will have to wait anywhere between 11 to 13 years just to see if they have a chance, a shot, at getting their rights restored.” Crist has switched parties to run for governor as a Democrat against Scott.</div>
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Law professor Michelle Alexander opens her groundbreaking book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” with the story of Jarvious Cotton: “Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. ... His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.”</div>
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At a national level, bills are being proposed that would guarantee voting rights for ex-felons, with both Democrat and Republican support. After Holder, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky spoke at Georgetown, advocating for full voting rights. But it is still an issue over which states exert enormous control.</div>
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Desmond Meade is not sitting around waiting for his rights to be handed back to him. He is organizing. He currently serves as the president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, with close to 70 groups pushing for reforms of the state’s disenfranchisement laws:</div>
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“It’s about humanity. It’s an all-American issue. It’s not about Democrat or Republican. It’s about the common decency of letting an individual or helping an individual to reintegrate back into their community so they can become productive citizens and enjoy life.”</div>
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A Nonviolent Man Is Serving Life After Breaking A Now-Expired Law. They’re Asking Obama To Help.</h1>
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ONE ON ONE: 5 Minutes With John Forte On What A 14-Year Prison Sentence Taught Him</h1>
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John Forte is a highly acclaimed hip-hop writer, producer and performer who has released four solo albums and worked with the Fugees, Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock. Forte co-wrote and produced two songs on the enormously successful Fugees' album The Score, which won Best Rap Album at the 1997 Grammy Awards. A year later, Forte released his own critically acclaimed debut album, Poly Sci, which was produced by Wyclef Jean. In addition to rap and hip-hop, Forte is also classically trained, having studied violin at the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.</div>
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Forte is also a convicted criminal, who served eight years in federal prison after he was found guilty of drug trafficking in 2001. He released his second album, the confessional I, John, in 2002 while serving time at Pennsylvania's Lorreto Federal Penitentiary. President George W. Bush later pardoned Forte's 14-year sentence in 2008. Since his release from prison, Forte has become an activist for criminal justice reform, and is particularly passionate about America's juvenile justice system.</div>
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"I saw the worst reflection of our society as evidenced in our prison system," he says. "We are hemorrhaging right now."</div>
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Forte openly admits he did the wrong thing involving himself in criminal enterprise, but says he shares his story in the hope of affecting positive change in the lives of other young people who may also be susceptible to such a path.</div>
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"My activism towards criminal justice reform and towards juvenile justice is very, very personal," he says. "I do it by telling my narrative as opposed to trying to preach to people. I think that as an artist, it's my responsibility, self imposed or otherwise, to tell my story as honestly as I possibly can."</div>
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The U.S. has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. About 1 in 35 adults were supervised by the adult correctional systems at the end of 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Those same statistics showed that black males ages 18 to 19 were almost 9.5 times more likely than white males of the same age group to be in prison and overall, black males were 6 times and Hispanic males 2.5 times more likely to be imprisoned than white males in 2012.</div>
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Forte's activism in this area manifests as wanting to see the nation pay more attention to the issues surrounding incarceration; youth mental health, education and how, in his words, "we're failing our kids."</div>
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"I don't want to play the race card, but I would be a fool to say I did not notice a disproportionate number of children of color in the juvenile criminal justice system," he says. "How are we failing these kids, and what can we do to make it better?" <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Forte's compulsion to try and bring attention to the issue stems from his own experience; for him, the personal is political.</div>
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"When I was away, there was a number of guys I served time with who said, 'The first thing I'm going to do when I get out of here is forget this ever happened,' and for me, that wasn't an option," says Forte. "I don't have the luxury of being able to forget about my past, for better or worse."</div>
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Did a Couple of Tech Entrepreneurs Just Fix Society's Crime Problem?</h1>
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Eddie Griffin went to state prison in the '90s, after his cocaine addiction led him to three possession convictions—qualifying him for a penalty of 25 years to life under a now-defunct section of California's three-strikes law. He was sentenced to 27 to life. Such lengthy sentences are enough to stunt a convict's professional future and make for a difficult socialization into the world beyond the bars of San Quentin State Prison.</div>
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That alienation often results in ex-cons failing at gainful employment, leading to the high rates of ex-convicts returning to crime and beyond that, to a perpetually unsafe society and budgets crippled by judicial and prison costs. The situation needs a smart solution. Tech entrepreneurs Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti had people like Griffin in mind when they developed "The Last Mile," a program that introduces inmates to tech start-ups and instills confidence by teaching basic tech skills. </div>
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Along with Kenyatta Leal, who spent 19 years in prison, Redlitz and Parenti created "<a class="tplinkpos" href="http://thelastmile.org/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Last Mile</a>," which teaches San Quentin prisoners business and entrepreneurial skills and places them in a paid internship program with Bay Area technology companies.</div>
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The program is named for the difficult transition from prison to successful livelihoods outside those walls. Nor is it just about fixing the criminal justice system: The program aims to improve the number of African American, Latino, and Native American participants in technology fields, where they are deeply underrepresented. </div>
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While new federal guidelines to combat the <a class="tplinkpos" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/01/14/school-to-prison-pipeline-federal-guidelines" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">school-to-prison pipeline</a> aim to prevent the rise in incarceration rates, "The Last Mile" attempts to restore the social and vocational skills that have been lost as a result of long-term imprisonment. Among the startling facts the program encountered early on was that many inmates were incarcerated before the Internet existed. </div>
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Participants go through a six-month program, meeting with the start-ups twice a week to learn about taking their tech-business ideas from paper to potential investors. Tech notables such as Guy Kawasaki and <a href="http://www.half.com/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">H</a><a href="http://half.com/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">alf.com</a> founder Josh Kopelman have been program mentors. </div>
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Because social media is inescapable, inmates also learn how to build their brand and online presence. Volunteers then upload their messages for them, because inmates do not have full-time Internet access. </div>
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The program concludes with an event called “Demo Day,” in which each participant pitches a business idea to an audience that includes potential investors. That's where Griffin, a 2013 graduate of the program, pitched his "At the Club" app, which offers live-streaming jazz performances. </div>
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After Proposition 36 changed three-strikes laws to only apply to violent felons or those convicted of serious crime, Griffin was<a href="http://thelastmile.org/2013/07/eddie-is-a-returned-citizen/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">resentenced</a> and released in July 2013. He <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2014/03/24/a-tech-program-helps-san-quentin-prisoners-get-on-track/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">now works</a> as a junior developer at Mindjet.</div>
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To ensure the model can be replicated elsewhere, Redlitz and Parenti recently tried the "Last Mile” program at the Los Angeles County Jail, where they will have a Demo Day next month, <em><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2014/03/24/a-tech-program-helps-san-quentin-prisoners-get-on-track/" style="color: #018b73; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Forbes</a> </em>reported. </div>
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Two state laws ruled unconstitutional</h1>
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A federal court judge has found two California laws that resulted from <a class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/ballot+initiatives/" rel="nofollow" style="border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ballot initiatives</a> – including the so-called “Victims’ Bill of Rights” – to be unconstitutional.</div>
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The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton of Sacramento said the state’s implementation of the laws improperly changed the punishment for crimes committed before the laws were enacted.</div>
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Proposition 9, a ballot initiative passed by the voters in 2008, and Proposition 89, passed by the voters in 1988, “retrospectively increased punishments, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/U.S.+Constitution/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #024a82; cursor: pointer; display: inline; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">U.S. Constitution,</a>” Karlton declared Friday in a 58-page order.</div>
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Karlton said that, for purposes of the case before him, “an ‘ex post facto’ law is one ‘that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime when committed.’ ”</div>
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Proposition 9, the so-called “Victims’ Bill of Rights” or “Marsy’s Law,” mandated longer periods of time between parole hearings, which Karlton said results in a risk of longer sentences for prisoners than they faced when their crimes were committed.</div>
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Proposition 89 granted the governor the right to review and reverse paroles already approved by the Board of Parole Hearings in murder cases. Karlton said every governor since passage of the measure has abused that power by blocking a large majority of the paroles they reviewed.</div>
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The judge issued an injunction blocking state enforcement of the two laws.</div>
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He ordered the board to revert to the law governing spacing of parole hearings prior to Proposition 9, which guaranteed thousands of prisoners an annual suitability hearing after a minimum term prescribed by law.</div>
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The judge ordered the governor to quit reversing already-approved paroles while applying the same factors the board considered.</div>
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The lawsuit before Karlton, Gilman v. Brown, is certified as a class action on behalf of all California state prisoners who have been sentenced to a life term, but with the possibility of parole, for an offense that occurred before passage of Proposition 9 on Nov. 4, 2008. The separate class challenging Proposition 89 consists of all prisoners doing life with the possibility of parole for an offense predating Nov. 8, 1988.</div>
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Proposition 9 eliminated the board’s discretion to set hearings a year apart, even when the board has made a finding of strong evidence a prisoner will be ready for parole in a year.</div>
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The initiative imposes a mandatory three years before the first parole hearing. Additionally, under the old law, the sentences of a significant number of prisoners were to continue beyond a minimum term only as long as the board found them unsuitable for parole. Under Proposition 9, those same sentences continue indefinitely unless the board finds “clear and convincing evidence” that the prisoner is suitable for parole in five, seven, or 10 years.</div>
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Karlton thus decided the 2008 law “creates a significant risk” of longer incarceration than was the case when the crimes were committed. He said he based the conclusion on evidence presented at a non-jury trial before him last summer and accounts of terms actually lengthened by the law that were submitted by prisoners’ attorneys.</div>
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In February 2010 the judge barred enforcement of parts of the measure, ruling that the Ex Post Facto Clause would likely allow life-term prisoners to prevail on the merits of their attack on reduced availability and frequency of parole hearings.</div>
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But, 10 months later, the 9th <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/U.S.+Circuit+Court/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #024a82; cursor: pointer; display: inline; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">U.S. Circuit Court</a> of Appeals struck down the injunction, ruling that the proposition “does not create a significant risk of prolonging … incarceration.” The opinion rests on the part of the initiative enabling the board to advance a hearing to an earlier date when a prisoner can show “a reasonable likelihood” that they are suitable for release.</div>
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However, several examples of prisoner petitions for an advanced hearing show that the process “can be rendered meaningless or illusory,” Karlton said in Friday’s order. First, he said, the board has erected a hurdle regarding “change in circumstances or new information,” that a prisoner must clear before the board will even take an earlier look at the question of suitability. Second, the judge said, “when this requirement is spun off from the suitability requirement, it imposes an additional, substantive burden …”</div>
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As to Proposition 89, Karlton stated it is clearly not a “ ‘neutral’ transfer of final decision-making authority” from the board to the governor. “In practice,” he said, “the governors have used it to tip the scales against parole. Thus, while the governors could use the law to review parole decisions to ensure that they are accurate and fair, they appear to have no such concern about decisions that deny parole.”</div>
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The voters wanted to correct their perceived “weakness” in the existing law, “namely too many murderers being paroled too soon,” Karlton observed. “The governors have carried out the people’s will by putting their fingers on the scale and reversing 70 percent of parole grants for these class members.”</div>
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There is vindication for two men who spent 21 years in prison for a brutal triple murder they say they didn't commit. </div>
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Now, a new life begins for Tony Yarbough and Shariff Wilson,
who were just teenagers when they were convicted of murdering Yarbough's
own mother and sister, as well as the sister's friend. For the first time in their adult lives Friday, they are waking up in their homes instead of a prison cell. They were freed after a judge overturned their convictions, which
came at the ages of 15 (Wilson) and 18 (Yarbough) after they were
arrested back in 1992 in the grisly triple murder in Coney Island.<br />
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"I don't even know how to describe it," Yarbough said. "I'm overwhelmed right now. I'm so grateful." <br />
The pair took their first steps as free men Thursday after the
handcuffs were ordered off while family members cried and cheered.<br />
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"I just want to thank my lawyer and everybody that believed in me that I didn't do this crime," Wilson said. <br />
On Thursday, Wilson celebrated a night of firsts -- the first black
cherry soda, the first slice of pizza, the first chance to use a fork
without looking over his shoulder.<br />
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"Upstate when they feed
you, they give you a metal fork, but you have to turn it in before you
leave," he said. "If not, they'll put you in a box."<br />
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The
Brooklyn District Attorney's Office asked that the murder convictions be
vacated against both men. Mom Annie Yarbough, 12-year-old sister
Chavonn Barnes and her 12-year-old friend Latasha Knox were found inside
a Coney Island project, stabbed and strangled, more than two decades
ago. Tony Yarbough and Wilson had been out in the West Village when the
killings took place and returned home to find the bodies.<br />
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Lawyers have argued for years that there was never any physical evidence
linking the men to the killings and the only evidence against Tony was
Shariff's confession, which he recanted in 2005. He claimed police
coerced him, and he has passed several polygraph tests since. <br />
The game changer in the case came last summer, when the city's medical
examiner revealed that the DNA found under Annie Yarbrough's fingernails
matched evidence found in the 1999 killing of Migdalia Ruiz, who was
found raped and stabbed to death in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn.
That murder happened while Tony and Shariff were already in jail,
meaning the real killer had struck again and was still on the loose. <br />
"There were a number of factors that led to the innocence of both of
these guys," Yarbough's lawyer Philip Smallman said. "The DNA, I think,
in many ways, is just the icing on the cake.<br />
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Family members reacted with joy and were overcome with emotion when the men were unshackled and set free.<br />
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"I'm just so excited," mom Gloria Wilson said. "I don't know how to
act. He's like a new toy to me. That's my gift back to me."<br />
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Tony Yarbough was arrested so quickly after the crime that he doesn't
even know where his relatives are buried. Thursday though, he had
nothing but relief and heartfelt gratitude. <br />
"I got Jesus in my
life, there's no time for bitterness," he said. "I'm going to live my
life to the best of my ability right now."<br />
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Tony initially received the maximum sentence of 75 years to life behind bars. <br />
The real killer has never been caught or identified.<br />
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"It's pretty clear that somebody is responsible for four bodies and
still hasn't apparently been taken to justice for those acts," Smallman
said. "This case is a perfect storm of everything that can go bad in a
criminal case." <br />
The world is a very different place now, and
Wilson says he is trying to decide whether to get an iPhone or a Samsung
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Attorneys for Kalvin Michael Smith, convicted in the 1995 beating
of a manager at the former Silk Plant Forest store, will take his case
to the U.S. Supreme Court after the lower court declined to reconsider
its decision to deny his appeal.<br />
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James Coleman, one of Smith’s attorneys, said in an email Tuesday
that they plan to file a petition in May to the U.S. Supreme Court,
asking it to review the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
4th Circuit in Richmond, Va.<br />
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On Feb. 21, the appeals court denied a petition
to reconsider its dismissal of Smith’s appeal. In January, a three-judge
panel of that court upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge Catherine
Eagles, who ruled that Smith had failed to comply with the one-year
deadline required for prisoners who want to appeal their convictions in
federal court.<br />
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Smith’s attorneys had asked that the full 16-judge panel review the decision.<br />
Smith, 42, is serving up to 29 years in prison
for the beating of Jill Marker on Dec. 9, 1995. The assault left Marker
with traumatic brain injuries. She now lives in Ohio under 24-hour care.<br />
Smith has maintained his innocence, and his case
has become the most prominent allegation of wrongful conviction in
Winston-Salem since the Darryl Hunt case. Hunt was freed in 2003 and
then exonerated the next year in the 1984 murder of Deborah Sykes, a
copy editor for the now-defunct afternoon paper, The Sentinel. A DNA
test led law enforcement to another man, who confessed to the crime. The
Winston-Salem Journal published a series of stories in 2004 about the
Smith case, raising questions about the police investigation and the
prosecution.<br />
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Coleman and David Pishko, also one of Smith’s
attorneys, had argued in the petition before the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 4th Circuit that Eagles was wrong in ruling that Smith could
have discovered certain evidence favorable to him before the deadline,
which would have been Aug. 30, 2007. Smith filed his appeal in 2010.<br />
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Coleman and Pishko argued that Smith couldn’t
have found the evidence because Forsyth County prosecutors suppressed it
and didn’t turn it over as they were required to do.<br />
It wasn’t until Aug. 30, 2007, for example, that
prosecutors acknowledged that Marker did not identify Smith out of a
photo lineup that contained Smith’s picture during a meeting with
Winston-Salem police detectives on Oct. 31, 1996, the petition said.<br />
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill has
said that the rules of professional responsibility prevent him from
commenting on pending litigation. The N.C. Attorney General’s Office is
representing Forsyth County prosecutors in Smith’s appeal.<br />
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In court papers, state prosecutors have defended Smith’s conviction.<br />
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Glenn Ford has been freed from the notorious Angola prison in Louisiana
having lived under the shadow of the death sentence for 30 years. He
becomes one of the longest-serving death row inmates in US history to be
exonerated.<br />
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Ford was released on the order of a judge in
Shreveport after Louisiana state prosecutors indicated they could no
longer stand by his conviction. In late 2013 the state notified Ford’s
lawyers that a confidential informant had come forward with new
information implicating another man who had been among four
co-defendants originally charged in the case.<br />
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He was sentenced to
death in 1984 for the murder the previous November of Isadore Rozeman,
an older white man who ran a Shreveport jewellery and watch repair shop.
The defendant had worked as an odd jobs man for Rozeman. In interviews
with police Ford said that he had been asked to pawn a .38 revolver and
some jewellery similar to that taken from Rozeman’s shop at the time of
the murder by another man who was among the initial suspects.<br />
Asked
as he walked away from the prison gates about his release, Ford told
WAFB-TV, “It feels good; my mind is going in all kind of directions. It
feels good.”<br />
Ford said he did harbour some resentment at being wrongly jailed: “Yeah, cause
I’ve been locked up almot 30 years for something I didn’t do.<br />
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“I can’t go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40 stuff like that.”<br />
Dr
Phillip Rozeman, nephew of the victim, told the Shreveport Times said
that district attorney’s office had alerted the family in advance that
new evidence had been obtained that, had it been available 30 years ago,
might have had an impact on the verdict or death sentence. “We
understand that and actually believe the DA is acting honourably. This
is positive reflection on the criminal justice system that does the
right thing for people.”<br />
Ford’s conviction bears all the hallmarks
of the glaring inconsistencies and inadequacies of the US justice
system that are repeatedly found in cases of exoneration. The fact that
despite serious qualms among top judges about his conviction this
innocent man was kept on death row for so long is certain to be seized
upon by anti-death penalty campaigners.<br />
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Among the many all too
typical problems with his prosecution was the composition of the jury.
An African American, Ford was sentenced to death by a jury that had been
carefully selected by prosecutors to be exclusively white.<br />
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His
legal representation at trial was woefully inexperienced. The lead
defence counsel was a specialist in the law relating to oil and gas
exploration and had never tried a case in front of a jury; the second
attorney was two years out of law school and working at the time of the
trial on small automobile accident insurance cases.<br />
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At the trial
the state was unable to call any eyewitnesses to the crime, nor was it
able to produce a murder weapon. Instead Ford was convicted largely on
the testimony of a witness who was not a detached observer – she was the
girlfriend of another man initially suspected of the murder.<br />
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Under
cross-examination the witness, Marvella Brown, admitted in front of the
jury that she had given false testimony. “I did lie to the court… I
lied about it all,” she said.<br />
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In another classic element
frequently found in exoneration cases, cod science provided by “expert”
witnesses also helped to put Ford on death row. One such expert
testified that the evidence pointed to the defendant because he was
left-handed; another expert told the jury that particles of gunshot
residue had been found on his hand; and a third talked about fingerprint
evidence implicating him.<br />
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The testimony from all three expert witnesses was later shown to have been at best inconclusive, at worst wrong.<br />
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Ford
continued to profess his innocence throughout the 30 years. In the
appeal process that ensued, the Louisiana supreme court, the state’s
highest legal panel, acknowledged that the evidence against him was “not
overwhelming” and that the prosecution case was open to “serious
questions”, yet it decided to keep him on death row.<br />
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More
recently it emerged that state prosecutors had failed to disclose
evidence to Ford’s legal team that could have been crucial in his
defence. It included evidence from confidential informants pointing the
finger at Ford’s co-defendants, who faced initial charges that were then
dismissed as the prosecution bore down against the wrong man.<br />
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In
a statement Ford’s current lawyers, Gary Clements and Aaron Novod, said
they were pleased by the exoneration. “We are particularly grateful
that the prosecution and the court moved ahead so decisively to set Mr
Ford free.”<br />
Ford becomes the <a href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row">144th death row inmate to be exonerated</a>
over the past four decades, underlining the perils of innocent people
being sent to their deaths in America’s capital punishment system. Yet
despite such warning, several states such as <a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/01/committees_approve_bill_to_sho.html">Alabama</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-death-penalty-initiative-20140212,0,7551552.story#axzz2vlMEgG7q">California</a>, <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/gov-rick-scott-signs-bill-to-speed-up-executions-in-florida/2126764">Florida</a> and <a href="http://www.foxkrbk.com/story/proposed-bill-in-missouri-to-speed-up-executions-20140226">Missouri</a>
have taken recent steps to speed up the process of executions and
whittle down the recourse to appeals in a way that had such expedition
applied in Ford’s case would already have seen him put to death.<br />
Richard
Dieter, an authority on capital punishment at the Death Penalty
Information Center, said that Ford’s case “painfully reveals the
fallibility of the death penalty and the risks we take with every death
sentence. Some states are trying to speed up executions instead of
addressing the underlying problems that have led to such mistakes.”<br />
David
Love, executive director of Witness to Innocence, an organisation of
exonerated death row survivors and their loved ones, said that attempts
to speed up the time from conviction to death showed that for some
politicians “it’s more important to have finality than to have justice. I
believe that’s a misguided approach. As we see more and more innocent
people like Glenn Ford released from death row, that’s a wake up call
that we have to look at our broken system.”<br />
Ford will now go
through the long process of trying to rebuild his life on the outside.
Under Louisiana law he can apply for compensation of up to $25,000 for
each year lost to detention, but only up to a ceiling of $250,000.<br />
As
for the Isadore Rozeman case, it has now officially reverted to the
status of an unsolved homicide. The local district attorney’s office
said that an investigation is under way into “certain individuals”
suspected of having been involved in the murder.PROJECT REBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17982600210524112264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693218735441677104.post-24627897976224899452013-06-13T12:35:00.000-07:002013-06-13T12:45:28.041-07:00All things that Glitter are not gold. There is no talks about making sure that folks get jobs after prison<div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Convicts throughout the world have a famously tough time </span><a href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/03/09/ex-convict-goes-job-hunting-the-hardest-career-turnaround/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">finding work after leaving prison.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Employers tend to discriminate against ex-cons, and the criminal justice system rarely prepares prisoners adequately for re-entry into the workplace. But the Italian government is leading the way, at least in this regard. It's created the Sigillo fashion brand, and all of the products under that label will be created by female prisoners and sold in high-end fashion stores.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In the Rebibbia prison in Rome, female convicts are being trained in the art of handbag-making. Any inmate who chooses to participate in the program will earn a salary of 600 euros per month (or roughly $800), according to </span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-10/italy-prison-fashion-brand-gives-inmates-new-hope/4744514" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">AFP</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">No less an authority than Fendi heiress Silvia Venturini Fendi herself supports the project. The handbags will retail for up to 40 euros (or $53), and will be available in fashion stores throughout Italy "within months," reports </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/italy-prison-fashion-brand-gives-inmates-new-hope-113061000148_1.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Business Standard</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Ten inmates have already agreed to participate in the program. Another 40 from across Italy are expected to join them. Officials hope that the training will lead to employment for them after prison. The Italian justice ministry has invested 400,000 euros for the program. Charities have kicked in an additional 400,000.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The program at Rebibbia is instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in its inmate participants, according to news reports. "When I get out of here, I would like to open a shop," said a 33-year-old who was born in the Ukraine, and identified by </span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-10/italy-prison-fashion-brand-gives-inmates-new-hope/4744514" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">AFP</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> only as Natalya. She also said that she and her fellow convicts find professional fulfillment from the program. "When we create things and they are sold, are appreciated, then we enjoy our work."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: center; width: 620px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">According to Nanda Roscioli, a former Italian justice ministry employee, this professional training of inmates is "unique" in Italy. As to why the job training is only open to women, she said the "subordinate" minority in Italian prisons face conditions that are "harsher, more barbaric" then what men face. "The aim of the project is to give female detainees the tools to be in the marketplace once they are released."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Of course, Italy's ex-cons are hardly alone in their </span><a href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/03/09/ex-convict-goes-job-hunting-the-hardest-career-turnaround/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">struggle to find employment</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">. A </span><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/annals_sequencingdisadvantage.pdf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">study in New York City</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> found that job applicants with a criminal conviction are nearly 50 percent less likely to be called for an interview or receive a job offer. As a result, </span><a href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/11/06/small-businesses-put-ex-cons-to-work/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">many former convicts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">turn to nonprofit organizations, such as the Philadelphia-based </span><a href="http://bakerindustries.org/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Baker Industries</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, which trains ex-cons for free. The organization also helps its members find housing and clothing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The Rebibbia participants, for their part, are optimistic about their employment future. "With this job I'm sure everything will be okay with me. I've learned a lot here," Kalu Uwaezuoke Chinedum Ike, a 40-year old Nigerian facing drug trafficking charges who's currently imprisoned at Rebbibia, told AFP. "When I get out I want to have a more normal, a calmer life."</span><h3 id="title_20618975" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.671875px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">
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When some inmates leave the slammer, they roast coffee beans. <a href="https://www.ihaveabean.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #288bcb; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I Have a Bean</a>, owned by Second Chance Coffee Company, is a roasting plant in Illinois that helps ex-convicts restart their lives. The facility roasts six different kinds of coffee bean, from Costa Rica to Ethiopia.</div>
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PROJECT REBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17982600210524112264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693218735441677104.post-77731700769776901032013-05-22T11:37:00.001-07:002013-05-22T11:37:41.787-07:00 Passport to the Future: Accessing Higher Education in an Era of Mass IncarcerationCheck out this film from filmmaker Jeremy Robins and producer Benay Rubenstein, Founder of College Initiative and 2011 Soros Justice Fellow<span style="color: #737373; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chris Darner situation.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mad man or upset and tired of being tired</span></u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After doing a little research and
reading about the Ex LAPD officer Chris Darner, I learned more about why he
snapped. He got terminated from the LAPD for supposedly making false
statements about misconduct against one of his fellow police officers.
Chris Darner made a complaint against his field officer Sergeant Teresa Evans,
accusing her of kicking suspect Christopher Gettler. The Los Angeles
Police Department Board of Rights found that he was making false
statements. According to the evidence and testimonies from bystanders
there was no incident that involved kicking of a suspect that had been
apprehended. No eyewitnesses could confirm Sergeant Evans kicked suspect
Gettler. Also there were no foot prints or kick marks on suspects
shoulder and face where he was supposedly kicked. Police say the33-year-old
ex-cop killed three people and injured others on a campaign of revenge against
those who blamed Darner. Chris Darner made a statement on his Facebook
before the killing spree stating, "I am a man who has lost complete faith
in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered and libeled me."
Chris Darner wanted revenge for those who he felt betrayed him which was the
LAPD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another reason why Chris Darner
snapped was because of racism. He felt that racism was big in his
department and he wanted to bring it out to the public but got
terminated. He felt that racism was a big factor and needed something to
be done, which he took it in his own hands. According to the LAPD Chris
Darner shot himself before being captured. The cabin he was in set on
fire due to reasons not specified and a special vehicle was rammed inside the
cabin after they believed they heard a gunshot. But there is always a
second side to any story. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
was a journalist by the name of Max Blumenthal who tweeted a different
scenario. He used an iPhone app that featured a police scanner and
through the scanner he heard officers screaming, "to go with the plan,
burn the guy, several burners deployed," were some of the things heard
through the police scanner. In my opinion I believe the LAPD set the
cabin on fire in order to kill Darner not capture. Police violence has
been increasing and such actions wouldn't surprise me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Rebound Intern)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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Rutgers Student Overcomes Addiction to Become University's Ninth Truman Scholar<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2013-03-26.8328999752/article.2013-04-12.0492856457http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2013-03-26.8328999752/article.2013-04-12.0492856457" target="_blank">http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2013-03-26.8328999752/article.2013-04-12.0492856457http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2013-03-26.8328999752/article.2013-04-12.0492856457</a></h1>
PROJECT REBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17982600210524112264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693218735441677104.post-42898276963641869972013-04-11T17:14:00.001-07:002013-04-11T17:14:37.936-07:00Neuroprediction of future rearrestInteresting articles on future brain scans that can possibly be a tool to predict which criminals will offend and which will not. What this article is proposing can be detrimental to our criminal justice system.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/19/1219302110.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/19/1219302110.full.pdf+html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.labspaces.net/127523/Brain_scans_might_predict_future_criminal_behavior">http://www.labspaces.net/127523/Brain_scans_might_predict_future_criminal_behavior</a>PROJECT REBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17982600210524112264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693218735441677104.post-31572669495396878842013-01-16T12:01:00.000-08:002013-01-16T12:01:18.054-08:00SFSU has produced some great community assets http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/10/in-san-francisco-former-gang-member-helps-give-young-offenders-a-second-chance/<br />
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