Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black male lawyer in Los Angeles, cheered as it was by many African Americans, was an exception to a bleak pattern. Last week the Washington-based Sentencing Project, which in 1990 broke the grim news that 1 out of every 4 black men ages 20 to 29 was in jail, paroled or on probation, delivered a chilling update: the estimate...
...Butler, a law professor at George Washington University, reports that inner-city juries are increasingly acquitting black men they know to be guilty. "They do a cost/benefit analysis," he says. "They look at this person and decide, 'As a community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands it. But it is a radical act, used historically to undermine an unpopular authority like the British crown in the 1700s. Butler knows this...
Mildred Johnson, a retired bookkeeper and a parishioner at St. Sabina's Catholic Church on the South Side, is proud that her husband Odessa is going to the march. She has seen her 31-year-old son search unsuccessfully for work. She has watched the new Cook County jail go up: "a masterpiece; there's not a school in the county that can compare." Black people, she says, "are always in a grieving state; we've been tranquilized by injustice." She is hoping that Farrakhan's march will wake them up. She doesn't care that...
...many African Americans, on the other hand, these indications of progress are undermined by the facts that about a third of black families live below the poverty line; that 1 in 3 black males in his 20s is in jail, on probation or on parole; that a black lower middle class consisting of blue-collar workers is shrinking; that a resentful white attitude has resulted in attacks on affirmative action and government assistance, which, African Americans contend, rather than disabling black families by creating excessive dependencies has been inadequate to their needs. These antipodal positions have been hardened...
...many observers this tactic backfired, making Shipp more sympathetic, rather than less credible. Simpson was furious. From jail, he organized a telephone conference with the Dream Team and announced, "I'll decide who the running backs are in this game!" Says writer-producer Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's most recent book, I Want to Tell You: "The Shipp thing brought a sense of immediacy to the trial for O.J. The trial was like the Gaud? mosaic in Barcelona. That was the day O.J. truly understood that any little stone out of place could cause him to spend...