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A sampling of recent news stories
related to the prosecution of youth as adults
National News The incarceration nation - CBS
News
California
A solitary
confinement solution
- Los Angeles
Times
Colorado
Guv signs
juvenile crime bill into law
- The Durango
Herald
Nebraska
Should Felony Suspect Be Charged As An Adult Or
Juvenile?
- WOWT - TV
This month on
Juvenile Justice Matters, we
spoke with an
incredible person who has seen what it is like to be
in an adult
prison at a young age. Jason Baldwin,
one of the West Memphis 3, joined us to
talk about
his case and life after prison. To listen to this
and many other
shows, visit
www.blogtalkradio.com/jjmatters.
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MOVEMENT!
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The Campaign for
Youth Justice is a national campaign
dedicated to ending the practice of trying,
sentencing
and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 in the
adult criminal
justice system.
This weekly publication will provide
you with a sampling of news, editorials, opinion pieces and other commentary
related to the prosecution of youth as adults.
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Solitary Confinement on Trial in Colorado |
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Apr 30, 2012 at 05:15 PM |
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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
Our latest piece over at Mother Jones concerns an important trial beginning today in Federal District Court in Denver, in which a prisoner
with mental illness is challenging more than a decade in solitary
confinement in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Also included is
background on the groundbreaking work of the University of Denver's
Civil Rights Clinic; on the use of solitary confinement to warehouse the
mentally ill; and on recent challenges to solitary in the state of
Colorado. What follows is the beginning of the article; you can read the
full piece on MotherJones.com.
Troy Anderson lives in Cañon City, a high desert town in a
dramatic setting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. But for more than a
decade he has neither seen those mountains nor felt the sun on his
skin. He spends 23 hours out of each day confined to an 8 x 12 isolation
cell at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP)—one of the state's
supermax prisons—and the remaining hour in a bare exercise room. Well
over half of his 42 years have been spent behind bars, most of them in
what prison authorities euphemistically call "administrative
segregation." In practice, this means Anderson will remain in solitary
confinement until prison officials feel it's time to let him out.
Anderson has been in and out of jail since he was a juvenile on
account of his erratic and sometimes violent behavior. In 2000, he was
sentenced to 75 years for myriad charges stemming from two incidents in
which he shot at police, the second time in an attempt to escape
custody. Offenses committed in prison have landed him in "ad seg" at
CSP. (His last disciplinary infraction was in 2005, when he was written
up for somehow managing to get envelopes to another prisoner.) |
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