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		<title>ACLU says locking up kids for life unconstitutional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a statement released yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan have filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine Michigan citizens sentenced to life in prison without parole for crimes committed when they were minors. The lawsuit charges that a Michigan sentencing scheme that denies the now-adult plaintiffs an opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unanswered Question.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As this moving blog demonstrates, people who have honestly and openly wrestled with the idea of Juvenile Justice and Sentencing issues must inevitable reach a point where they see that, as our justice system stands now, it is incapable of giving youthful offenders the chance at rehabilitation that they deserve while simultaneously giving them the correction that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/11/an-unanswered-question/</link>
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		<title>Kites: An inside perspective on justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After visiting the Limon Correctional Facility in July, StopDirectFile.org began corresponding with Erik Jensen. Though Jensen only participated peripherally in the crime, he was convicted of murder at the age of 17 in 1999. He is currently serving life without the possibility of parole. StopDirectFile.org will continue to correspond with Jensen over the coming months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/11/kites-an-inside-perspective-on-justice/</link>
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		<title>Felony murder puts kids away for life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article by Elizabeth Renter at Change.org profiles 16-year-old William Murphy who is facing a stiff sentence for killing his 15-year-old friend, Otilio Rubio. The problem is that Murphy, who is facing 50 years in prison didn&#8217;t actually kill Rubio and no one is claiming that he did. One night Murphy and Rubio, along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/10/felony-murder-puts-kids-away-for-life/</link>
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		<title>Solitary burden borne by kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent story posted at Solitary Watch details the story of George. George is a 15-year-old jail inmate accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas. George has been found competent to stand trial as an adult so he&#8217;s being held in an adult facility, but because he&#8217;s a child he&#8217;s being held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your neighbor&#8217;s child&#8230;is our child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new video documentary titled &#8220;Your Neighbor&#8217;s Child&#8221; was recently aired on Wyoming PBS and discusses shocking shortcomings in Wyoming&#8217;s juvenile criminal justice system. According to Wyoming Kids Count, Wyoming has no separate juvenile justice system, so a juvenile can accumulate a criminal record in adult courts for minor offenses like smoking in school or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/10/your-neighbors-child/</link>
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		<title>Alan Sudduth denied parole by Appeals Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest miscarriage of justice happens when a supposedly self-correcting system fails to correct itself. Alan Sudduth was convicted as a juvenile for murder in 1995 and sentenced to 70 years in prison on a plea deal.  The problem is that Sudduth didn&#8217;t actually kill anyone and someone else has repeatedly confessed to the murder. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/10/alan-sudduth-denied-parole-by-appeals-court/</link>
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		<title>When Mercy is Demanded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many types of crimes, and there are many types of criminals.  Some criminals are murders, some are rapists, some rob from little old ladies in a make money online scheme, and some make the headlines of the NYTimes.  However, without a doubt, the lowest form of criminals are the pimps.  These bottom of the human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/09/when-mercy-is-demanded/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile offender statistics add up to employment needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006 there were a total of 892 incarcerated juveniles being held in Colorado. The total number of families with children living in Colorado was approximately 580,286. To put that in perspective: If you identified 650 families with children in the White Pages and called them all, at least one of them would have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/09/juvenile-offender-statistics-add-up-to-employment-needs/</link>
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		<title>Newsflash: Prosecutors are Human Too!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story, from this USA Today Article, basically goes like this: a Miami man was wrongfully accused, tried, and convicted of crimes he did not commit.  He was convicted based upon faulty evidence which had been manipulated by the local prosecutor who was looking to score a win.  By the time the truth came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/09/newsflash-prosecutors-are-human-too/</link>
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