Press release re-printed in its entirety. [On September 12, 2011], a former Harris County Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted Duane Buck is urging state officials to halt Mr. Buck’s execution next week because “[n]o individual should be executed without being afforded a fair trial, untainted by considerations of race.” Linda…
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From Prison Culture Blog: Georgia Death Row prisoner Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, September 21 despite overwhelming doubts about his guilt. In light of this imminent execution date, Educators for Troy—a Chicago-based ad hoc group of educators, activists and artists—is calling on all educators to interrupt…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Last Words By soothsayer99, CI Editor The mission of…
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From The Root: Six years after the federal levees failed and 80 percent of the city was flooded, New Orleans has lost 80,000 jobs and 110,000 residents. It is a whiter and wealthier city, with tourist areas well-maintained while communities like the Lower 9th Ward remain devastated. Beyond the statistics,…
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Cross-Posted from Criminal Injustice Kos:† † Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Soothsayer99, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CIK. Criminal InJustice Kos is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. West Memphis Three…
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From the Huffington Post: A 7-cent robbery might sound like a petty crime, but, combined with the assault of a 73-year-old man, it’s landed 15-year-old Anthony Stewart some serious time in juvenile detention. Onondaga County Judge William Walsh decided that Stewart deserved to have the incident on his permanent record.…
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Texas schools continue to push the school-to-prison pipeline as students as young as five years old end up in courtrooms pleading guilty to school bus skirmishes, spilling milk, spraying perfume in class, running in the hall, and violating dress codes. The Washington Post reports that 6 in 10 students were…
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From Change.org: Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) are going on an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike was organized by prisoners in an unusual show of racial…
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