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Earlier last week, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake spoke on the indictments of the six police officers who will be charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.
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Sociology Students Go to Prison For Class Requirement
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For 18 years, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program has been “a staple of social and criminal justice education at over 100 universities,” writes Krysta Amber Loftis of USA Today. Inside-Out arranges classes at local prisons featuring both incarcerated and non-incarcerated students.
The Inside-Out program began in 1997 at Philadelphia’s Temple University, and has since become a staple of social and criminal justice education at over 100 universities, including Michigan State, the University of Toledo, Penn State and Dartmouth.
Take the example of Central Michigan University (CMU).
Members of CMU’s chapter of the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program spend Tuesday nights in the Central Michigan Correctional Facility in St. Louis. The class, Social Issues through the Prism of Prison, is taught by sociology professor Justin Smith.
This is the second semester CMU has offered the course.
“It’s (13) students from the inside and (13) students from the outside,” Smith said, explaining that the incarcerated men are between the ages of 20 and 65.
“A lot of this is a reaction to making sure we’re improving education in prisons, but also in higher education institutions. It’s a way to offer CMU students a very diverse setting to learn in (and) a way to learn from a variety of experiences, a variety of ages.”
The prison portion of the class consists of group discussions.
Issues range from the criminal justice system to gender, race and racism, class, social change, social movements and collective action.
“Both the inside guys and outside students get a lot out of it,” Smith said. “The inside guys are mostly older, and they’ve been through a different lifestyle than the students. The students have had a lot more access to education. We’re able to have a lot of good discussions.”
Texas Mother Pulls Gun On Student
A mother pulled a gun on a female student after the student got into a fight with her daughter, according to the Pasadena, Texas, Independent School District, according to click2houston.com.
PISD said the two students were fighting at a park across the street from Pasadena High School Tuesday when Viridiana Alvarez took out a gun. Pasadena ISD police broke up the fight before anyone was seriously injured.
Hours after the fight, cellphone video and pictures surfaced of the altercation that appeared to show Alvarez pointing a gun at the teen’s head. Alvarez was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
“I don’t think a grown woman should be taking a gun where kids are,” said the victim’s grandmother. “I think it’s wrong.”
During her first appearance in court Alvarez, 33, told the judge that she wasn’t planning to shoot the girl with the pistol, only “scare her.” Her family told KPRC2 that the gun was not loaded.
“Yeah but still,” said the victim’s grandmother. “It’s not right to take (out) a gun.”
Rush Limbaugh: Scott Walker Should Say He Dropped Out Of College To Avoid Being ‘Accused Of Rape’
Rush Limbaugh has some advice for 2016 Republican presidential nomination favorite Scott Walker.
Rush Limbaugh recommended for Walker to tell journalists that he “left college because (he) didn’t want to be accused of rape someday.”
But Majority Report asks: But why did Scott Walker drop out of college?
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What Republican Candidate Will Romney Support?
Republican Mitt Romney bowed out of the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Friday after considering a third run, telling supporters it was time for the next generation of party leaders to seek the White House.
Romney’s decision helps clarify a Republican field split between potential establishment candidates like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and conservative voices represented by Texas Senator Ted Cruz or former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
However, sources such as Reuters claim that Romney has privately made known to aides he is not convinced that Bush can defeat Hillary Clinton if she becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.
TYT tries to figure out who Romney will support.
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CNN: Who Benefits From Mitt Romney’s Exit?
CNN’s Michael Smerconish believes that Governor Chris Christie could benefit from Mitt Romney’s exit.
Theoretically, it could be a good situation for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, if he didn’t have so many troubles at home.
Those include investigations into purposely causing a multi-day traffic jam in the town of a mayor he didn’t like, misuse of Hurricane Sandy relief aid, and improper use of bondholders’ funds by the Port Authority.
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Shocker: Romney Pulls Out
Former Massachusetts governor and two-time presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulled back from a third run for president after determining that he could get out while he’s ahead, according to Yahoo News.
“After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee,” Romney said in a statement first published on radio host Hugh Hewitt’s website.
“Two weeks ago it would have looked like he got pushed out,” a campaign adviser from the 2012 effort said. Now, Romney left the stage with the most recent opinion polls showing him leading the huge field of potential Republican candidates for president.
New England: Tens Of Thousands Without Power
According to AccuWeather.com, tens of thousands are without power in New England due to a storm.
The storm battered New England on Wednesday night as widespread damage was reported. Tens of thousands of customers were without power across Connecticut, New York, Maine and Massachusetts.
The worst part of the storm will continue into early Thursday in New England and into Thursday night in the maritime provinces of Canada, and it will strengthen while moving up the Atlantic coast into Friday.
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