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Sheriff seeks to replace jail cells with classrooms

Patrick Healy, NBC Southern California
NBC Southern California - The gutting of Men's Central Jail cells to be replaced with inmate classrooms is one element of a dramatic re-envisioning of the Los Angeles County jail system as proposed by Sheriff Lee Baca.
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Supreme Court: Use new drug sentencing law in crack cases

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says criminals who were arrested but not yet sentenced for crack cocaine offenses should be able to take advantage of newly reduced sentences...
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Sex offenders paid by state to babysit children

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - The money to pay these felons came from a $750 million-a-year subsidy program that helps over 150,000 poor families throughout the state of Illinois...
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