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HIV Inmates and ACLU Take Alabama to Court Over Segregation
Health & Wellness  (tags: crime, freedoms, healthcare )

Phyllis
- 245 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Alabama prisoners who say they are unfairly penalized for being HIV-positive are taking their accusations of discrimination to federal court today.
Detroit Man Accused of Murder at 14 to Get $1.1M
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, crime, corruption, ethics, freedoms )

Phyllis
- 178 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Detroit has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to a young man who was rousted out of bed as a 14-year-old, charged with murder and held in a violent juvenile lockup for nearly two years before being acquitted.
Vigils for Newtown Shooting Victims
Society & Culture  (tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook, Newton, Connecticut, Children's Hope and Voice, child trauma, school shooting, school tragedy, school massecre )

Tonya
- 159 days ago - wtnh.com
(WTNH) -- Vigils are being held around Connecticut for the victim's of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown. Below is a Town-by-Town list of the vigils being held:
America's "Throwaway People": What Kind of Country Imprisons An Abused, Mentally Disabled Girl for Life?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Criminal (In)Justice system, Pennsylvania, Trina Garnett, mentally disabled, juvenile, accidental homicide, adult court, Life w/out Parole for Juveniles, "cruel & unusual", US Supreme Court, landmark ruling, June25, 2012, EJI, EqualJusticeInitiative )

LucyKalei
- 301 days ago - alternet.org
@14, Trina Garnett set a fire that accidentally but tragically killed 2 boys. Charged with 2nd-° murder, tried in adult court- sentenced to die in prison. EJI now seeking relief for her & challenging sentence. Read her story! June Supreme Court ruling may
Giving Teen Offenders Chance at Parole Is Just ( Newt Gingrich & Pat Nolan)
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, children, juvenile sentencing, crime, culture, dishonesty, ethics, family, freedoms, humans, health, government, politics, rights, sadness, safety, society, religion, tv, usa, philanthropy, police, law, media )

JL
- 243 days ago - utsandiego.com
But there is one area in which we ignore teens' youth and impulsiveness: our criminal laws. Our laws often ignore the difference between adults and teens, and some youngsters are sentenced to life in prison without parole (LWOP).
At Least 30 Children Among 60 Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Turkey
World  (tags: children, death, Turkey, Palestinian children, Palestian, boat sinks, Ahmetbeyli, migrants, overcrowded boat sank, Aegean coast )

Tonya
- 258 days ago - worldnews.nbcnews.com
AHMETBEYLI, Turkey - At least 60 migrants, most of them Palestinian and more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of meters off Turkey's western Aegean coast on Thursday, a district official said.
Horrifying Video Shows Teacher Joins Class Bullying of 13 Yr-Old Boy
Society & Culture  (tags: bullying, teacher, WA, teacher joins bullying of teen, police investigation, abuse, child, children, crime, dishonesty, education, ethics, health, humans, police, violence )

Tonya
- 264 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Caught on film by fellow students the alleged bullying by Rosi directly followed a 15-minute period where the boys fellow eighth-graders swung him from his arms and legs, wrote on his feet, stuck a traffic cone on his head, gagged him with his own sock
Arrested For Not Smiling - Olympics Spectator With Parkinson's
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, arrest, disease, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, Parkinson's, police, protection )

Kit
- 286 days ago - guardian.co.uk
"It could have been done better. I was arrested for not smiling. I have Parkinson's," he said, adding that he realised the officers were working long hours and trying to control the event properly, but they had not, in his case, acted correctly.
   
 
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