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Aug 2009

Exclusion policy on early prison release ruled invalid

An appeals panel says the Federal Bureau of Prisons has not adequately explained why inmates who have committed murder, rape and other violent crimes can't participate in the program. A Federal Bureau of Prisons policy excluding murderers...

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Aug 2009

Prisons, youth programs brace for cuts

Employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation were informed that layoff notices would be going out this week to 1,300 workers statewide, including about 1,200 in the Division of Juvenile Justice and 100 in adult...

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Aug 2009

New LAPD programs to combat hate crimes

After a recent upsurge in anti-Semitic violence, including the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June and a failed bomb plot targeting New York synagogues in May, Los Angeles city officials and community leaders are on...

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Aug 2009

Injunction Creates Gang-Free Zone Around Los Angeles School

Fighting to protect students facing "wanton gang violence," Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have won a court-ordered preliminary injunction creating a 1.4 square-mile gang-free zone...