By Bill Mears
CNN Supreme Court Producer
Monday, May 4, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court will decide whether it is cruel and unusual punishment for young criminal offenders to be sentenced to life in prison with parole.

The justices agreed without comment Monday to accept appeals from two Florida inmates convicted as teenagers of criminal offenses. Oral arguments will be heard in the fall.

Copy and paste or download the attached document to send tthis letter to Jerry Brown, California's Attorney General!

Attorney
General Jerry Brown

Elihu
Harris State Building

1515
Clay Street

Oakland,
CA 94607

Press Release

Announcing the opening of a new web site dedicated to truthfully informing the hard working citizens of the state of Virginia about how their tax dollars are being wasted by their representatives with warehousing of prisoners.

This site digs deeply into the Prison Warehousing problems and the problens with "New Law" and "Old Law" policies.

We ask that you visit the web site and give it the widest distribution possible.

On January 20, 2009 guards in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at the
State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
assaulted six prisoners, reportedly citing as reasons that these men
file grievances against guard misconduct and are engaged in civil
litigation against DOC officials; contact outside organizations
(HRC/Fed Up! and www.prisoners.com

San Francisco---Four activists, including one PARC member and two East Bay Prisoner Support (EBPS) members, were arrested and charged with felonies following police brutality that occured at a rally in San Francisco on Monday, March 16th, in solidarity with Tristan Anderson.

Tristan Anderson is a Bay Area resident who was severely injured by Israeli Military Forces while standing in solidarity with Palestinians at a small protest in a Palestinian town earlier this month.

PARC has received an alert that the Z Unit at High Desert State Prison has begun a massive hunger strike in response to unsanitary food and other health conditions that violate the California Department of Corrections regulations:

PLEASE SEND LETTERS OF CONCERN TO THE WARDEN  HIGH DESERT PRISON (address below)

Ma Khin Khin Leh, a political prisoner in Mynmar, was released from prison on Saturday, February 21! Her release follows an announcement by the Myanmar government that it would release 24 political prisoners. We celebrate their release, but remember that many more political prisoners remain jailed in Myanmar.

Thursday, February 05 2009 @ 06:18 PM CST

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February 21, 2009By SAM DAGHER

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has renamed and partly renovated the infamous Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, and it plans to transfer about 3,000 convicts there shortly, the first to occupy the facility in any numbers since it was handed over by the Americans in 2006.

Bob Egelko,Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writers
From the San Francisco Chronicle

(02-09) 18:48 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- California needs to release tens of thousands of California inmates over the next two to three years to relieve overcrowding that has ravaged prison medical and mental health care, a panel of federal judges said Monday.

In what it labeled a tentative ruling, the three-judge panel said prison populations must be reduced so health care for inmates can be brought up to constitutional standards.