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Truthiz — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:56:45 +0000

On a somewhat related note.....HERE'S an incarceration story AND pic that truly touches my heart: "Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America" Exceprt: April 11, 2012The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also <span>disproportionately young people of color.</span> With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention.On top of the cost, in its recent report No Place for Kids, the AECF presents evidence to show that youth incarceration does not reduce recidivism rates, does not benefit public safety and exposes those imprisoned to further abuse and violence.Ross thinks his images of juvenile lock-ups can, and should, be “ammunition” for the ongoing policy and funding debates between reformers, staff, management and law-makers. [...]Read story and see pic: "A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security Police, a private company. In 1982, a fire killed 27 prisoners and an ensuing lawsuit against the authorities forced them to reduce their population to maintain an 8:1 inmate to staff ratio."http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/photog-hopes...H/T: A. Sullivan

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:36:30 +0000

I really don't think this man is *all there* mentally so I'm not suprised that he's having difficulty coping with the reality that he's been arrested (and being held) for a crime that he doesn't think he committed. In his mind, killing Trayvon was an act of "self-defense." Case closed.Men like Zimmerman scare the h*ll outta me. But I'm even more distrubed by police departments like the Sanford Police Dept. in Florida_and the Police Chief in particular_that seems to operate in a grossly incompetent manner, to say the least. The police chief sets the tone for how his/her department will operate.In the words of an elderly minister in my church "If the HEAD is crooked, the body CAN'T be right."

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