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		<title>A History of Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first in a three-part series examining the death penalty in America. In order to understand the death penalty in America, it’s important to look at its position in the nation’s history.  The practice of putting an individual to death as punishment for a crime did not originate with the our New-World culture; in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Sues LA County Sheriff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, according to a Wall Street Journal article printed yesterday.  The LA Sheriff&#8217;s Department, which operates five LA County correctional facilities including the Men&#8217;s Central Jail &#8211; the largest jail in the world in terms of population -  is accused in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Corrections-related Media: Alcatraz on FOX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So there’s a new TV show coming out, and it’s set in one of America’s most famous prisons – we almost have to write about it, right? Alcatraz, which premiered Monday on Fox, is the new show from producer J.J. Abrams, the mind behind Lost.  As you might expect, there are plenty of plot twists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbour&#8217;s Pardons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi created a stir this month by issuing hundreds of pardons during his last two weeks in office.  The majority of these pardons – 90%, the governor claims – were given to individuals no longer in custody, to restore their civil rights.  Some of the clemencies, however, were granted to men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Corrections-related Articles of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that read this blog (and if you’re reading this, that means you), you’ll likely have noticed our informal format: take a chunk of corrections-related news, digest it, and offer up our bite-sized version to you.  This is not uncommon; many blogs take this approach to content because it presents timely information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays From JPay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winter holidays hold an outsized place in our collective consciousnesses, for reasons that go beyond the history of the holidays themselves.  Certainly, Christmas is a central event in the Christian calendar, yet it can be argued that Easter is more foundational to the faith.  Hanukkah is a key symbol of Jewish identity, particularly here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barefoot Bandit Pleads Guilty, Gets 7 Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh man, do you remember this guy?  Colton Harris-Moore captured the nation’s attention in 2010 by embarking on a wild (and wildly implausible) crime-and-flight spree that stretched from the sleepy woods of the Pacific Northwest to the Bahamian island of Eleuthera.  The then-teenage bandit gained notoriety with both his daring methods of eluding capture – [...]]]></description>
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