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Cuicide Builds Suicide Awareness.



Compton, CA –

Struggling to survive and overcome violence and poverty is a common image seen in movies and music about those who live in Compton. For West Coast rapper Cuicide, it’s all just a part of his life.

He’s dealt with hardships from the moment he was born, from having been abandoned…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 5, 2012 at 10:36pm — No Comments

Louisiana is the world's prison capital

Louisiana is the world's prison capital

Published: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 5:00 AM Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 11:23 AM

By Cindy Chang, The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune

Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2012 at 9:33pm — No Comments

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME

WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE...

 

What people are saying:

"Documentaries have the power to inform, incite and inspire an audience all in one sitting. Judging from the two-minute long standing ovation he received [at Sundance] after the screening of his film Slavery by Another Name, director Samuel…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2012 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Chilling message posted hours before S.F. homicide

Chilling message posted hours before S.F. homicide

By: Mike Aldax | 03/30/12 5:25 PM

SF Examiner Staff Writer | Follow on Twitter @SFExMikeAldax

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Diondre Young, 21, was shot dead Friday morning near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.At 5:44 p.m. on Thursday, 21-year-old Diondre Young posted a rhyme on Facebook that mentioned friends who had died and asked whether his “time could be next.”

Young’s “time,” it turned out, was just hours away, as he was…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 3, 2012 at 10:46pm — No Comments

Gang dispute fueling violence in San Francisco

Gang dispute fueling violence in San Francisco

By: Mike Aldax | 08/01/12 5:57 PM

SF Examiner Staff Writer | Follow on Twitter @SFExMikeAldax

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Mike Koozmin/The S.F. Examiner

The site of the shooting was the 3000 block of San Bruno Avenue, not far from a Visitation Valley neighborhood plagued with multiple killings in the recent weeks. Four shooting deaths since Sunday have been the result of a raging dispute between members of one vicious gang, police said…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 3, 2012 at 10:38pm — No Comments

24-Year-Old Gets 3 Life Terms in Prison for Witnessing a Drug Deal: The Ugly Truth of Mandatory Drug Sentencing

Clarence Aaron is serving three life terms for a small-time college cocaine deal, another victim of heinous mandatory drug sentencing laws.



This is a simple truth: the United States is the only country in the first world that imposes life sentences to teenagers for small-time, non-violent drug offenses. In fact,…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on June 13, 2012 at 11:42pm — No Comments

Drug lord's son speaks out against violence

Drug lord's son speaks out against violence



Sebastian Marroquin

Sebastian Marroquin speaks in Calgary about the crimes of his father, Pablo Escobar, a drug lord killed in 1993.

Updated: Fri Apr. 27 2012 08:59:04



ctvcalgary.ca

For nearly 20 years, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was the more vicious and powerful criminal on Earth who controlled a billion dollar empire and a…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on April 27, 2012 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Drug lord's son trying atone for father's many sins

Sebastian Marroquin, son of columbian drug dealer Pablo Escobar

CALGARY — In 2007, Sebastian Marroquin set off on a journey of atonement. He sat down and wrote letters to two young men whose fathers were brutally murdered.

"It took me three months to write the letters," says the soft-spoken 35-year-old, as we sit together at…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on April 27, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Perks and pains of a drug lord's son

Sebastian Marroquin, son of Columbian drug head Pablo Escobar poses for a photo on April 25, 2012, in downtown Calgary, Alberta. (STUART DRYDEN/QMI AGENCY)
Sebastian Marroquin, son of Columbian drug head Pablo Escobar poses for a photo on April 25, 2012, in downtown Calgary, Alberta. (STUART DRYDEN/QMI AGENCY)

CALGARY -- His fear growing with every passing second, Sebastian Marroquin tried to get his father to hang up the phone.

But Pablo Escobar wouldn't listen. The world's most notorious drug lord was on the run following a prison break, and apparently…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on April 27, 2012 at 3:56pm — No Comments

A fog of drugs and war

More than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year took antidepressants, sedatives and other prescription medications. Some see a link to aberrant behavior.

 

While there was some early, ad hoc use of psychotropic drugs in the Vietnam War, the modern Army…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on April 8, 2012 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Fear of repeat offenses keeps bail higher for drug charges

Fear of repeat offenses keeps bail higher for drug charges

by Brian Anderson

banderson@annistonstar.com Anniston Star

Mar 23, 2012

Bail bond agent Jason Chandler says 34 of the 41 people he has bonded out of jail in the last three weeks have been accused of drug offenses.  Jason Chandler said in his line of work, it doesn’t pay to be judgmental.

As a bail bond agent with A Bad Boy Bonds on 11th Street in Anniston,…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 24, 2012 at 12:37am — No Comments

9 charged in St. Paul gang rape

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Prosecutors have charged nine people in connection with an alleged gang rape in St. Paul last November.

A criminal complaint issued Friday says the defendants, five adults and four juveniles, are reported members of the "True Blood 22" street gang.

"They are a documented criminal street gang that operates in the Twin Cities," said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi.  "The facts outlined in this complaint are horrible."

Prosecutors say the 14-year-old…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 24, 2012 at 12:29am — No Comments

Mayor calls city violence ‘unacceptable;” McCarthy retools anti-gang strategy

Pounding the podium with emotion, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday he’s outraged by the bloodbath of violence that claimed the life of a 6-year-old playing on her porch in front of her parents and nearly killed a Chicago Police officer.

“What happened is unacceptable. Our streets are for our children…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 24, 2012 at 12:25am — No Comments

Gangs in crime-plagued El Salvador call a truce

SAN SALVADOR | Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:12am EDT

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Rival gangs operating in El Salvador have called a truce as the Central American country confronts a plague of…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 24, 2012 at 12:21am — No Comments

Don't say.... NOT MY CHILD... gang violence can start with young children!

Seven girls facing charges from Williston Middle fight

Posted: Mar 16, 2012 1:24 PM MST Updated: Mar 20, 2012 1:24 PM MST
The New Hanover County Sheriff's Gang Task Force Unit is investigating an incident that happened Thursday at Williston Middle School,…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 20, 2012 at 2:10pm — No Comments

Wanna be's... are GUNNA BE's

March 15, 2012

Parents upset about gang label

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 20, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Boys and girls as young as fourth grade are known to be involved in gangs.

Detectives: Gang violence begins in elementary school

Posted: Mar 19, 2012 2:08 PM MST Updated: Mar 19, 2012 2:08 PM MST


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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 20, 2012 at 1:53pm — No Comments

The nation's largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons...

As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 18, 2012 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy

Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 18, 2012 at 4:26pm — No Comments

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