Court erupts during murder arraignment
Joseph Joyner, 20, was arrested in the courthouse in Fairfield County Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, Connecticut August 11, 2011. Joyner and two others are charged with the fatal shooting of Blair Belcher Jr. in Washington Park on July 31. Three others were also injured in the shooting. Photo: Ned Gerard / Connecticut Post Dasheen Brown, 17, was arrested in the Fairfield County Courthouse Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, Connecticut August 11, 2011. Joyner and two others are charged with the fatal shooting of Blair Belcher Jr. in Washington Park on July 31. Three others were also injured in the shooting.Gangs In Connecticut - News
Police said the victims were caught in the middle of a battle between East Side and West Side gangs. Joyner set off the crowd as he stood in the courtroom shaking his head as the charges were read against him. Judge Eddie Rodriguez Jr. ordered both
The 19-year-old called his "a strange kind of anger because it won't allow me to burn buildings, break car windows, intoxicate myself, shoot my enemy, or even cry" even while "my city is full of gangs, drugs, and angry teens living in poverty who act
Meerkats, members of the mongoose family, live in social "mobs" or "gangs" of up to 30 members in burrows in the Kalahari Desert, in the southern African nations of Botswana and South Africa. The exhibit will feature six sibling meerkats born in the
When Tin Pan Alley's teen King of the Song-Pluggers falls for a factory girl who's a musical demon, it's a recipe for comic romance as they sing and dance their way through class struggles, street gangs, debutante balls and a whole lot of ukuleles.
The center sits in a park which, once dominated by gangs, now hosts birthday parties and jump houses on weekends. A Cub Scout troop started at the center last year, the Scouts' first presence in that neighborhood in 14 years.
“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary ...
Dr. Terry Kupers, a clinical psychiatrist, professor at the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, and expert in forensic mental health, spoke before the California Assembly Public Safety Committee on August 23rd, 2011 addressing the issue of solitary confinement and the need for reform of California’s Security Housing Units (SHUs).
The document is also available for download: http://solitarywatch.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dr-kupers-public-safety-comm.doc
Statement by Dr. Terry Kupers at Hearing of California Assembly Public Safety Committee, August 23, 2011
The prisoners’ five core demands in the July hunger strike were actually very well thought out, and closely reflect trends in the scientific literature. In other states, legislation has been passed regulating the use of solitary confinement in the prisons (New York and Maine stand out, Illinois is considering a Bill). The California legislature could pass ground-breaking legislation that would go a long way toward ending the unconstitutional conditions and programs in the SHUs. I will list a number of possible components of such legislation, pretty much in sync with the five core demands of the hunger strike.
First, a few words about security. You will encounter complaints from law enforcement agencies and the department of corrections that any and all changes you propose would create a security threat too serious to permit. Actually, the scientific research about supermaximum security confinement contradicts that assertion. The supermax was invented during a time of out-of-control violence in our prisons, the 1980′s. The idea was to isolate “the worst of the worst” so that the prisons would become less violent. By now, some very convincing research proves the opposite: Locking certain prisoners up in long-term isolation does not reduce the violence rate. Far from it. I was part of developments in the Mississippi DOC, where we proved that drastically downsizing the supermaximum Unit 32 of Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman resulted in a decreased violence rate throughout the DOC and an impressive reduction in disciplinary infractions for the prisoners released from SHU and sent to general population.
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