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You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginSo now he's playing a word of the day game with other inmates?? I thought he was supposed to be kept away from other inmates :suspect: Did that change? Maybe I missed something :animal0017:Yes it did change, because in November he was a "keep away prisoner" in the medical ward. Probably only while he was being processed. QuoteDr. Conrad Murray is currently being held in the medical ward at the L.A. County Men's Central Jail -- but it's NOT because there's anything wrong with him ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement tells us ... Murray has been assigned to the medical ward while he's being processed -- as opposed to the regular holding area. We're told the medical ward has a "higher density of deputies" -- which means it's easier for officers to keep an eye on a high profile prisoner like Murray when he's in the M.W. As we previously reported, Murray has been deemed a "keep away prisoner" -- which means officials must keep an eye on the doc at all times, as a matter of his own protection. There are several reports that Murray is on suicide watch -- but officials at the jail tell us those reports are incorrect. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
So now he's playing a word of the day game with other inmates?? I thought he was supposed to be kept away from other inmates :suspect: Did that change? Maybe I missed something :animal0017:
Dr. Conrad Murray is currently being held in the medical ward at the L.A. County Men's Central Jail -- but it's NOT because there's anything wrong with him ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement tells us ... Murray has been assigned to the medical ward while he's being processed -- as opposed to the regular holding area. We're told the medical ward has a "higher density of deputies" -- which means it's easier for officers to keep an eye on a high profile prisoner like Murray when he's in the M.W. As we previously reported, Murray has been deemed a "keep away prisoner" -- which means officials must keep an eye on the doc at all times, as a matter of his own protection. There are several reports that Murray is on suicide watch -- but officials at the jail tell us those reports are incorrect.
Today a major focus of the National Prison Project's work is reversing the misguided policies that have given the United States the largest prison population in the world, both per capita and in absolute numbers. We continue to fight for safe, humane, and decent conditions for the 2.3 million people behind bars. And we are challenging new forms of discrimination, like the Alabama policy that segregates prisoners living with HIV, requires them to wear armbands advertising their HIV status, and bars them from prison jobs, work release, and other important rehabilitative programs.As we celebrate Black History Month 2012, there is cause for optimism and hope. After nearly 40 years of relentless growth, the U.S. prison population actually declined last year. And while the burden of mass incarceration still falls with crushing disproportionality on Black people, their rate of incarceration has decreased for the last two years.Martin Luther King Jr. taught us that "the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." That's true in the struggle for civil rights, and equally true in the struggle for prisoners' rights. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
For American prisoners, huge numbers of whom are serving sentences much longer than those given for similar crimes anywhere else in the civilized world—Texas alone has sentenced more than four hundred teen-agers to life imprisonment—time becomes in every sense this thing you serve.For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a kid’s arrest, say. For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones. More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States…The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the number of people jailed: in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven hundred and thirty-one. No other country even approaches that. In the past two decades, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education…Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Since 1980, California has developed a bloated prison population for two key reasons. First, the state's punitive sentencing policies such as "three strikes and you're out" have produced such bizarre outcomes as an offender serving 25 years to life for stealing three golf clubs. And second, California leads the nation in sending offenders back to prison for violations of parole, many for technical reasons, such as failing a drug test, rather than a new crime.The court's ruling will not result in the release of any offender who represents an immediate threat to public safety. But because 95% of inmates will eventually be released from prison, the key issue centers on use of resources. That is, should the state continue to spend $48,000 a year to imprison a low-level drug offender or provide treatment in the community at far less cost?Public safety requires that we focus on how best to integrate offenders as they return home. This means assistance in securing work, housing and a positive peer group.Likewise, state officials need to develop alternative measures to respond to offenders who violate the conditions of their parole. In recent years, the states of Kansas and Michigan successfully reduced the number of people sent back to prison by enhancing services and supervision in the community. Targeted drug testing and drug treatment, as well as expanded job placement services, can effectively limit prison populations and reduce recidivism.Will some of the inmates released from California prisons re-offend upon their release? Of course. But that's already the case despite massive amounts of money spent on incarceration. The challenge now — and the opportunity — is to shift resources to produce better public safety outcomes for all.The billions of tax dollars that can be saved by reducing prison populations can be better targeted for public safety by equipping released offenders with the tools and connections they need to lead productive lives in their communities.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Wow.Two things, one I could see this happening, it sure seems to make sense. The other, I can't see a meeting happening like this. Hearing that is shocking and why would anyone even need to mention this private prison conspiracy to these lowly music industry execs? All they would need to be told is Hi, we want you to promote Gangster Rap music. It's the next big thing and we really want you to focus on it and sell it, and it would be done. Music industry execs like the person who wrote this letter do what they're paid to do and if they get paid to promote Gangster Rap, they promote Gangster Rap. No reason WHY needs to be given and especially not as shocking and confidential that reason is... it makes me question the validity of the whole story.Even though it sure seems that's exactly the motive behind the music, fill the prisons in America with young black and latino men. Make it "cool" to be a criminal, get them in the system, and teach them to be career criminals while you're at it.
I don't think the trial was real either. I believe it was a stage production. Hoax court.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginI don't think the trial was real either. I believe it was a stage production. Hoax court.yep. exactly what i think it was. and i'm sticking to it. :judge-smiley: