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Seeking Changes in the irrational and illogical Juvenile sentencing laws, we developed the One Child at a Time Network. One Child will highlight, Advocate and Campaign for the end of life without Parole for all Juvenile Defendants, seek the abolishment of Juveniles tried in Adult Court rooms and fight for recognition of the benefits of Rehabilative methods rather than Retributive.
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The innocence bus tour was a vision of Johnnie Lee Savory as part of his, and many others, commitment and efforts to end the plague of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions have been experienced by many of our nation’s people without regard to race, age, or gender and is a result of a number of factors including false accusations, false confessions, eyewitness misidentification, ineffective assistance of counsel, and the most common cause, revealed in a recent study by the Better Government Association and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, alleged government error and misconduct by police, prosecutors, and forensic officials.
justice will prevail please Sign ! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dnaforsavory/ ; http://www.thesavoryfiles.com/#/tour/4569563453
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Honorable Louis Farrakhan, NOI, At Detroit's City Council Meeting - - A No Struggle, No Development Production! By KennySnod * * Honorable Louis Farrakhan, NOI, At Detroit's City Council Meeting urges Black unity in Detroit! - - Honorable Louis Farrakhan, NOI, at Detroit's City Council Meeting urges Black Unity in Detroit! Delete the scoop?
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Guantanamo official confirms new policy requiring prisoners to a search a previous policy shunned. Delete the scoop?
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Once again, an Erie County resident has been exonerated of charges on which he was wrongly convicted. Nathanial A. Johnson spent nearly four years in prison for an armed robbery he did not commit. Delete the scoop?
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Beth Warren covers juvenile court and youth crime for The Commercial Appeal Delete the scoop?
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As recently as two years ago, most of the youths facing criminal charges serious enough for them to be tried as adults weren’t using guns. Some were breaking into homes; others were committing robberies, but guns were rarely drawn. Delete the scoop?
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Your Take: Despite Supreme Court ruling, states still condemn young offenders to lengthy prison terms. Delete the scoop?
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Sacramento Police arrested a man who they believe killed his infant daughter. Alias McLaughlin, 20, was taken into custody Wednesday evening. Delete the scoop?
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Editorial: Supposedly exceptional sentences for exceptional crimes create an inflation that cascades throughout the prison system Delete the scoop?
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A Tennessee woman was sentenced Friday to 51 years for the murder of her newborn twins. Delete the scoop?
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Suzanne Moore: When children are injected with heroin and sold for sex, where are the witnesses, the men who knew what was going on but said nothing? Delete the scoop?
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Gang leaders in Peru are recruiting teenagers to carry out some of their worst crimes. They have targeted young men fresh out of jail and are now encouraging... Delete the scoop?
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Sequarier McCoy shifted in her seat behind a security glass window, waiting for her children to arrive, fiddling with the crayons, markers and paper scattered on the table. Delete the scoop?
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After 5 long years, the family of Sean Rigg, who died in police custody have the possibility of seeing some justice. The 40 year old, suffering serious mental health issues, died in police custody... Delete the scoop?
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It’s a place where fantasies become reality, where inhibitions are left at the door, and the concepts of infidelity, deception and immorality simply don’t exist—even if what’s happening is clearly illegal.
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The Jordan Brown case has stretched into its fifth year. But it is not over yet. And the lawyers representing the 15-year-old don't know exactly what
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Senate Tuesday approved legislation that would send all 17-year-olds charged with a crime in Illinois first to juvenile courts.
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Michael Bloomberg's increasingly strange statements about stop-and-frisk rest on an assertion that cops are there to stop crime.
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For more information, visit jimmydennis.org. Sign the petition at Change.org/Jimmy Dennis. Visit "Justice for Jimmy, International" on Facebook Music by Trib...
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Rob Owen: The recent announcement from the justice secretary, opening up probation work to the private and voluntary sectors, may help to rebuild lives
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Zoe Williams: The cost of ignoring the girls involved in the Oxford case is too high: why weren't they given this basic human respect?
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"My name's Kevin Raymond Young and I'm 52 years old." There's something desperate about the way Young says it, as if he's clinging to the wreckage of his identity. Young was 17 when he was sent to Medomsley detention centre in County Durham. He'd already had a tough life – taken into care at two, sexually and physically abused by those who were meant to look after him – but this was something different. As soon as he starts to tell his story, he's in tears.
His experience of Medomsley in 1977 has shaped, or disfigured, his life ever since. He was convicted of receiving stolen property – a watch his brother had given him; the first he had owned. The police asked if he knew where it had come from. No, he said. Could it possibly have been stolen, they asked. He thought about it – well, yes, possibly. He was sentenced to three months' detention.
The morning after he arrived at Medomsley, Young was lining up for breakfast when he was picked out of the queue by Neville Husband, the officer who ran the kitchen. Young later discovered that Husband had asked for his file – he wanted to know everything about him; most importantly, whether he had family who were likely to visit him. Young was one of a handful of new inmates sent to work in the kitchen with Husband.
"There are two things that are important to successfully sexually abuse somebody," Young says. "By successful, I mean without being prosecuted. One, anonymity or silence – if you can't carry out your act without people knowing, you're not going to be at it very long. The second thing you need is a victim who's 'reliable'; a reliable victim is someone who's already been abused to the point where, if they do speak out, who on Earth is going to believe them? And who on Earth is going to believe Kevin Young, the pauper's son, who has been in and out of care, who's a knife-wielding thug, a bully?" That is how a number of care home reports described Young, but he insists he was a quiet, over-obedient boy. "The truth is, nobody would have believed me."
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Two years after he had come across Husband again, the police tracked down Young to a bedsit he was then living in and pushed a note through the door asking if he'd give evidence about abuse that had happened at St Camillus, a home where he had been abused before Medomsley. For months he ignored them, but eventually he agreed to talk. He told the police that what had happened at St Camillus was bad, but there was worse. "I said let me tell you a true horror story, and I rattled off what had happened to me at Medomsley. About three weeks later, a chief inspector came to my door and said, 'We've been after Neville Husband for years.'" Husband had recently been the subject of complaints about abuse of boys and girls in his congregation while working as a minster at two churches in Gateshead, but the parents involved had not wanted to pursue the matter. When his office was later raided, sex aids were found in his drawers and child pornography on his computer.
Young was taken to a safe house in York, where he was shown a film on an 8mm projector. "The film showed a young boy about 16-17 with a rubber thing across his head, being choked. And they asked me, who do you think it is there?" Again, his voice breaks and he takes a few seconds to compose himself. "And I said, 'I don't need to tell you who I think it is.' It was me. So I had to sit down and watch 40 minutes of me being… He'd made films of many of his victims. Ccccrrrrrrrr…" Young imitates the sound of the projector. "When I was being assaulted, I could hear that. Remember the old wind-ups? Half my pain comes from listening to crrrrrrrrrrr."
Young's willingness to give evidence against Husband led to his arrest. It should have been a cathartic moment, a vindication, but it wasn't. If the police had known about Husband for years, why had nothing been done? After all, they had evidence of his obsession with child pornography dating back decades, and Young had reported the abuse 22 years earlier. Young is convinced the police had held on to the film for 14 years without doing anything about it. "I believe the films and photographs were taken from the property of Neville Husband in 1985," he says. guardian.co.uk
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The controversy between the government and a major media organization continues. Attorney General Eric Holder today justified the DOJ's tracking of reporters...
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