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• Post: Feds: Mississippi County Runs ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’

  Officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, have operated “a school-to-prison pipeline” that violates the constitutional rights of juveniles by incarcerating them for alleged school disciplinary infractions, some as minor as defiance, the U.S. Department of Justice said … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Gitmo: Military Judge Sides With 9/11 Plotters, Postpones Trial During Ramadan…

  A U.S. military judge agreed Monday to postpone the next court hearings at the Guantanamo Bay prison for five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks to avoid a conflict with the Muslim holy period of … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Egypt’s Mubarak Gets Life in Prison for Protesters’ Deaths

  Toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for complicity in the murder of hundreds of anti-government protesters, ending a raucous trial that impassioned the Arab world and shook autocratic regimes across … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Former Inmate Offers Advice For Blagojevich

  Gov. Rod Blagojevich is serving a 14-year prison sentence in a Colorado prison. Former Missouri state senator Jeff Smith served a year in federal prison on obstruction of justice charges. He offers sober advice to Blagojevich … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Blagojevich to offer last word before prison

  On his last full day of freedom, Rod Blagojevich will do what he loved doing while Illinois governor and as he unsuccessfully defended himself against corruption charges: He’ll step up to a microphone and talk. Blagojevich … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks Case: The Larger Issue

  After 19 months in military prisons — much of the time in solitary confinement — Pfc. Bradley Manning finally emerged over the past week from the netherworld to which he has been confined since his arrest … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Prosecutors Seek too High a Sentence for Blagojevich

  The throw-the-book-at-em types among you aren’t going to like my saying this, but Rod Blagojevich doesn’t deserve to go to prison for 20 years. Even 15 years, the low end of the range recommended Wednesday by … Continue reading →