Links:The Black Star Project's website:
Black Star Journal:
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Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling 4,000 Kids, As Young As 10 Years Old, To Prison System For $1.2 million
Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to almost three decades in jail after conspiring with private prisons to trade kids for cash.
May 22, 2013
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In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state.
Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in bribes for condemning minors to maximum prison sentences. In one case, Ciavarella sentenced a 10-year-old to two years in a detention facility for accidentally bottoming out his mother's car.
According to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, over 5,000 young men and women were unjustly sentenced to prison and denied their constitutional rights. Many of them have now been released and cleared of their charges.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by him between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles - including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Some of the juveniles he sentenced were as young as 10-years old.
Ciavarella was convicted of 12 counts, including racketeering, money laundering, mail fraud and tax evasion. He was also ordered to repay $1.2 million in restitution.
Click Here to see Democracy Now Report on this issue - part one
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Listen to Phillip Jackson on Fox News talk about
Honoring Dr. King with Service
America loves men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after they are dead!
When he was alive, his house was bombed, he was labeled by the FBI as public enemy # 1, he was threatened, beaten, bricked in the head, jailed, stabbed and eventually killed.
But now, we celebrate his live.
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Dr. Vincent Harding
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While I do not believe in putting words in a dead person's mouth, I think that if Dr. King were alive today, he would say, "don't focus on my 'I Have a Dream' speech and don't focus on the 1963 March on Washington, and don't focus on the victories won in the Civil Rights movement". He would say, as Dr. Vincent Harding, his close friend says, "find the work that needs to be done and do it".
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High School Students from Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Rockford, Springfield, Gary, Indianapolis, Peoria, Davenport, Lansing, Aurora, Benton Harbor, Joliet, Michigan City, and Champaign should attend one of the top college fairs in the country...
CHESTERFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL'S
9th Annual
Silas Purnell College Expo
on
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Tuley Park, 90th and King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ADMISSION: FREE
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Silas Purnell sent 55,000 Black students to college
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Come and meet representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide and colleges and universities throughout Illinois. Supporters: Garrett Popcorn; Walmart; State Rep. Elgie Sims; State Rep. Marcus Evans: State Sen. Donne Trotter; Alderman Roderick T. Sawyer; Alderman Michelle Harris; Alderman Anthony Beale; Chatham 14 Movie Theater; Chatham Food Market; The Black Star Project; Jewel-Osco; and Reggio's Pizza.
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