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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.

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, February 12, 2009

(02-11) 19:10 PST San Francisco
--
The state Supreme Court allowed a transgender former prison inmate on
Wednesday to proceed with a lawsuit accusing prison guards of failing
to protect her from being raped and beaten by her cellmates.

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, February 12, 2009

(02-12) 13:22 PST Scranton, Pa. (AP) --

Two Pennsylvania judges charged with taking more than $2 million in
kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers
pleaded guilty to fraud Thursday in one of the most stunning cases of
judicial corruption on record.

Due to your actions, Leonard was transferred back to Lewisburg.

Remember that the changed mission of USP-Lewisburg means that

Mr. Peltier will be transferred yet again.  Please continue to

keep the pressure on the Bureau of Prisons to transfer Leonard to

an appropriate facility.  Today and every day, make your voices

heard.  Send letters, call, and/or e-mail the director of BOP:

http://www.FreePeltierNow.org/transfer.htm.

OSCAR GRANT -- and YOU
[col. writ. 1/17/09]  (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
 
    Like you, I've seen the searing phone-camera tape of the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, of Oakland, California.
 
    And although it's truly a terrible thing to see, it's almost exceeded by something just as shocking.  That's been how the media has responded to this police killing, by creating a defense of error.
 

Leonard Peltier was attacked on January 20th very soon after his transfer to USP-Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania.

In the wake of the brutal murder of Oscar Grant by Bart Police
Officer Johannes Mehserle on New Years Day, thousands gathered in
Oakland on January 7th in order to pour their outrage into the streets.
The Oakland uprisings that followed showed the spirit and anger not
just to this officer and bart police, but to the entire system,
especially targeting police and corporate power.  The community of
Oakland understands that racism and brutality accompanies the current
system, and are organizing against it.   Police  repression that