Denver & the west
Crammed state jails will "pop"
By Erin Emery
Denver Post Staff Writer
Denver Post
Article Last Updated:01/30/2007 06:23:02 AM MS
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From the Baltimore Sun
Youth describes struggle with staff
Judge orders 3 removed from juvenile facility after teen being restrained dies
By Gadi Dechter
Sun reporter
January 27, 2007
Teen dies at Bowling Brook
Student in facility for youth offenders collapsed as staff tried to restrain him
By Gadi Dechter
Sun Reporter
January 24, 2007, 9:06 PM EST
Bill's Story:
Why I Forgave My Grandmother's Murderer
Paula Cooper was 15 years old when she killed my grandmother. The prosecution wanted the death penalty. The judge, although he stated he was opposed to the death penalty, said that according to the state law, he had no choice but to sentence her to death.
Bill
Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity
Data May Undermine Giuliani's Claims
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 8, 2007; A02
Rudy Giuliani never misses an opportunity to remind people about his track record in fighting crime as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
"I began with the city that was the crime capital of America," Giuliani, now a candidate for president, recently told Fox's Chris Wallace. "When I left, it was the safest large city in America. I reduced homicides by 67 percent. I reduced overall crime by 57 percent."
June 9, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
School to Prison Pipeline
By BOB HERBERT
On the Frontline documentary, When Kids Get Life, parricide expert Paul Mones stated that parents who kill kids get far less time than kids who kill a parent. The following is further proof that a child's life IS far less important than the life of a parent who abuses a child:
Woman Gets 25 Years for Killing Grandson
By Associated Press
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This Is Your (Father’s) Brain on Drugs
By MIKE MALES
Santa Cruz, Calif.
A SPATE of news reports have breathlessly announced that science can explain why adults have such trouble dealing with teenagers: adolescents possess “immature,” “undeveloped” brains that drive them to risky, obnoxious, parent-vexing behaviors. The latest example is a study out of Temple University that found that the “temporal gap between puberty, which impels adolescents toward thrill seeking, and the slow maturation of the cognitive-control system, which regulates these impulses, makes adolescence a time of heightened vulnerability for risky behavior.”
Children in Need of Safe Harbor
September 15, 2007
Editorial
Life without hope
In the US, there are 2,270 prisoners who were sentenced as children to life without parole. They will die behind bars. Ed Pilkington asks five of them - from a 21-year-old to a 70-year-old - how do they cope?
Saturday August 4, 2007