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...crime, and during the trial, a forensic expert testified that the hairs belonged to Pierce. After the Innocence Project became invovled with the case, the FBI's forensic labs re-examined the hairs in 2001, it found they did not belong to Pierce, but to another convicted felon. "I hope you all won't forget about them, too, because there are more," he said upon his release, about others who had been wrongly convicted, after spending 15 years in prison. "I'm just the one that opened the door, and I feel there will be a lot more coming...
...their own racist hiring practices,” says Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is advocating for CORI reform. CORIs contribute to a cycle of unemployment and crime which pervades our cities. A convicted felon who wants to reform and become a productive member of society will have a hard time proving this to a potential employer or college. For example, six of the top ten employers in Boston are hospitals with blanket no-CORI hiring practices, even in their janitorial or food services staff.With...
Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has refused to allow rapper and ex-felon Snoop Dogg into Oz. "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Andrews told local radio. Thus Down Under remains a peaceable haven for gentler souls like Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson. SCORE...
...close down the Kevin Rudd show. People who watch these players for a living are beginning to think that the P.M., caught up in his party's travails, has not yet got Rudd's measure. The government's attempt to tar him for his association with Labor felon Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs the air-conditioning hard in steamy Brisbane. Rudd is not a saint...
CALIFORNIA FELON, who relocated to a prison in Tennessee, in a state-sponsored videotape shown to inmates at overcrowded, racially charged California penitentiaries, to persuade the prisoners to transfer to jails in other parts of the country...