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Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-K, No. 12, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Short Takes

Mundo de Torturadores

Voices From Inside

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-J, No. 11, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Steps Against Juvenile Life Without Parole

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow in Solidarity with the Occupy Movement

Crime of the Month

Education Behind Bars Newsletters

Pen Pals for LWOP Prisoners

The San Quentin News Needs Help

Sab 26.11.2011 Ultimas Noticias- Egipto

3rd Year of Multi-Year RESIST Grant!!!

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-I, No. 10, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples Movement

Crime of the Month

Soliciting Holiday Card Designs

Voluntarios: Heroes de la Frontera

Summary of the Platform of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples Movement

Diagnosis Blog: Checking Up On Health Blogs Inthe Blogosphere, Edward Alan Miller, Antoinette Pole

Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Objectives. We analyzed the content and characteristics of influential health blogs and bloggers to provide a more thorough understanding of the health blogosphere than was previously available.

Methods. We identified, through a purposive–snowball approach, 951 health blogs in 2007 and 2008. All blogs were US focused and updated regularly. We described their features, topics, perspectives, and blogger demographics.

Results. Approximately half of the bloggers in our sample were employed in the health field. A majority were female, aged in their 30s, and highly educated. Two thirds posted at least weekly; one quarter accepted advertisements. Most blogs were established after …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-H, No. 9, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Attica is All Of Us

Crime of the Month

¡No Retrocedamos!: Licencias para Todos en NM

Soliciting Holiday Card Design

CCA and MTC, For-Profit Prisons, Expand

Between Structure And Agency: Assassination, Social Forces, And The Production Of The Criminal Subject, Cary H. Federman

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Assassins are often regarded as ahistorical figures of evil. In this article, I contest this view by analyzing the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901. There are two purposes to this article. The first is to situate McKinley’s assassination within the history and development of the social sciences, principally sociology, rather than assume that the assassin is a trans-historical representation of willful irresponsibility. The second is to describe and critique the discourse that made Czolgosz into a rational agent once he entered history as an assassin.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-G, No. 8, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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The Reinvention of Slavery

Para Difusion Inmediata

Solidarity Must Persist

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-F, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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We Applaud and Stand With You in the Ongoing Struggle

Crime of the Month

Voices in Solidarity/From Inside

Que Puede Hacer si Usted es Arrestado o Detenido por Inmigración?

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-E, No. 6, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Some Briefs

Justicia de la Libertad Condicional

Voices From Inside, In Solidarity

Some Tax Breaks for the Wealthy

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-D, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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May Day 2011: Push All Workers Up!

Voice From Inside

Dia Mayo 2011

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-C, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Where Does Torture Happen?

En Donde Sucede la Tortura?

Crime of the Month

Voices From Inside

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-C, No. 3, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Women in Prison -- A Fast Growing Population

In Memoriam

Mujeres Encarceladas Hoy en Dia

A Little Respect, Please, Christina Cerna

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Simon Tisdall suggests that last month, when Mohammed Bouazizi (twenty-six years old), “an unemployed graduate, set himself on fire outside a government building in protest at police harassment,” his act became the “rallying cause for Tunisia’s disaffected legions of unemployed students, impoverished workers, trade unionists, lawyers and human rights activists.” The reaction to his act of self-immolation and death on January 4th led to the flight of President Ben Ali ten days later to Saudi Arabia and to the end of Ali's twenty-three-year rule of Tunisia. Time reported the event as follows: “When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight on Dec. …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-C, No. 2, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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We Must Join In The Turn Forward

Crime of the Month

Tratamiento Malo

Voices From Inside

Indigenous Political Participation: The Key To Rights Realization In The Andes, Stephanie Selekman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

"There is no way back, this is our time, the awakening of the indigenous people. We'll keep fighting till the end. Brother Evo Morales still has lots to do, one cannot think that four years are enough after 500 years of submission and oppression,” said Fidel Surco, a prominent indigenous leader, reflecting on Bolivia’s first indigenous president entering his second term (Carroll & Schipani 2009).

The Andean region is particularly appropriate for examining indigenous political rights because 34-40 million indigenous people reside mostly in this region. The actualization of human rights for Andean indigenous groups is an inherently complex issue, …

Latin America’S Indigenous Women, Courtney Hall

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Latin America’s indigenous women are as diverse as the land they inhabit. Their uniqueness is shaped by belonging to groups that have their own distinct history, traditions, and identity. Yet despite this diversity, indigenous women confront the same human rights challenges: racial, gender, and socio-economic discrimination. Without ignoring the diversity of indigenous women, a better understanding of their fundamental struggles can be gained by weaving these issues together in a comprehensive narrative.

Untouchability Today: The Rise Of Dalit Activism, Christine Hart

Human Rights & Human Welfare

On July 19, 2010, the Hindustan Times reported that a Dalit (“untouchable”) woman was gang-raped and murdered in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The crime was an act of revenge perpetrated by members of the Sharma family, incensed over the recent elopement of their daughter with a man from the lower-caste Singh family. Seeking retributive justice for the disgrace of the marriage, men from the Sharma family targeted a Dalit woman who, with her husband, worked in the Singh family fields. Her death was the result of her sub-caste status; while the crime cost the Singh family a valuable …

Combating Discrimination Against The Roma In Europe: Why Current Strategies Aren’T Working And What Can Be Done, Erica Rosenfield

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In the summer of 2010, the forced expulsion of many Roma from Western to Eastern Europe captured headlines and world attention, yet this practice simply represented the latest manifestation of anti-Roma sentiment in Europe. Indeed, the Roma—numbering over ten million across Europe, making them the continent’s largest minority—face discrimination in housing, education, healthcare, employment, and law enforcement; widespread prejudice against this group shows no evidence of receding. There is, however, certainly no shortage of national and supranational policies aiming to promote inclusion and equality for the Roma.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol. 36-C, No. 1, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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¡Up With The New!

The Unity We Have

Concession: Semi-Contact Visits

End of Lethal-Injection Drug

Voices in Solidarity

El Secretario de Comercio de EEUU