Trayvon Martin Texts Are Released - NY Times (read it in The Local, Se)

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MIAMI — Intending to draw a fuller, perhaps more negative portrait of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in early 2012, a lawyer for Mr. Zimmerman released new material on Thursday that depicted Mr. Martin as troubled at school and enamored of a “gangsta” culture.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/zimmermans-lawyers-release-text-messages-of-trayvon-martin.html?WT.mc_id=TOP-D-E-OB-AD-BNR-OFF-0513&WT.mc_ev=click&_r=0

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11-Year-Old Girl Dies After School Fight

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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- After getting her nose bloodied in a fight with another girl near their Southern California elementary school, 11-year-old Joanna Ramos told her mother on the way home she felt sick. Hours later, she was dead.

"My daughter started complaining, saying she doesn't feel good, let's go home, so we went to home and I changed her clothes, and she go to sleep, that's the only thing that I know," Joanna's mother, Cecilia Villanueva told KNBC-TV.

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RAWSTORY: OBAMA TO BEGIN PROCESS OF CLOSING GUANTANAMO

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Obama to begin process of closing Guantanamo Bay: report

By Agence France-Presse

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 23:15 EDT

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President Barack Obama plans to resume transfers of inmates from Guantanamo Bay to other countries in a fresh bid to close the controversial US prison, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Life on death row: ‘They had no idea they were going to be executed’ | Amnesty International

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Life on death row: ‘They had no idea they were going to be executed’ | Amnesty International.

William Miles, Maker of Documentaries about Black History

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/movies/william-miles-maker-of-documentaries-about-black-history-dies-at-82.html?src=recg

"GROWING OLD IN ISOLATION" Solitary Watch

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Voices from Solitary: Growing Old in Isolation

May 8, 2013 By Voices from Solitary Leave a Comment

Shawn Fisher, who is serving a life sentence at Massachusetts Correctional Institution–Shirley, has written to Solitary Watch making the argument that the treatment of many elders in prison is in fact a form of solitary confinement. An organization of lifers in Massachusetts has urged the state legislature to adopt some sort of compassionate leave act that would let the old out to die in the free world.

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"Shocks the Science" Abby Zimet titled in CommonDreams

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08.15.12 - 12:20 PM

"Shocks the Conscience"

by Abby Zimet

A horrific story out of Meridian, Miss. - and evidently a lot of other places - where police act as a "taxi service" for a school-to-prison pipeline that shuttles mostly black kids to jail for "offenses" like dress code violations, flatulence, profanity, and disrespect. After months of investigation, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division found the police, Youth Court and Youth Services systematically violated the rights of mostly black and disabled children by arresting them without probable cause and sending them into a juvenile justice system where "existing due process protections are illusory and inadequate."

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