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20something: Documenting Young Lives Helps Filmmaker Resolve Her Violent Past
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(Jake de Grazia/USC)
AUDIO: A young filmmaker seeks to change minds and lives with her work.
Read more...384 Freed During Pakistan Jailbreak
Comments (0) | Al Qaeda, Dangerous, execution, insugents, International, jailbreak, Pakistan, prison, prisoners, talibal
The attack freed "dangerous insurgents."
Read more...Blagojevich Heads To Colorado Jail To Begin 14-Year Sentence
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Former Governor Rod Blagojevich, pictured here in 2010. (Flickr/Creative Commons)
Shamed former governor must face charges brought against him last June.
Read more...Honduras Prison Fire Kills Over 350
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The cause of the fire at the overcrowded jail is being investigated.
Read more...Austin Powers Actor Accused of Killing Cellmate in California Prison
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Random Work had a dark secret on the set of the movie.
Read more...California Hunger Strike Centers On Jail Within A Jail
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Prison official deny that SHU is solitary confinement. (Creative Commons)
Department of Corrections confused about inmate demands.
Read more...Prison Realignment To Replace Dysfunctional System
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Gov. Brown promises improvements.
Read more...Crack Cocaine Offenders Serving Time May Get Lighter Sentences
Comments (0) | Attorney General Eric Holder, crack cocaine, Fair Sentencing Act, National, powder cocaine, prison, U.S. Sentencing Commission
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Federal prisoners convicted of crack cocaine offenses may get reduced sentences.
Read more...Bradley Manning Being Transferred To Kansas
Unclear how his imprisonment conditions will change.
Read more...Justice? Or "Just Us?" Racism and Profit In The Prison System
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In a classic joke about black men in prison, the late, great, always controversial Richard Pryor said: "You go down there looking for justice; that's what you find: just us." The newly-relased movie "American Violet" suggests that Pryor was right.
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