Catholic ex-warden works to end penalty she calls costly, ineffective

07/06/11 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jeanne Woodford looks forward to the day when no one will have to do what she did four times: plan and carry out an execution. "They all weigh on me, as they do on everyone involved," said Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison and now executive director of the national organization Death Penalty Focus, in a June 28 telephone interview with Catholic News ...

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Letters to the Editor July 12, 2011

07/13/11 No empathy for inmates, my sympathies with our troops I guess no one is looking at this hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison for what it really is. Control. These men put themselves in the position they are in, and excuse me, but they get better treatment than some of them truly deserve. I personally am upset that some people think the Security Housing Unit is inhumane. These men have done ...

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Marc Lamont Hill: Why we must stand in solidarity with the Pelican Bay prisoners

07/20/11 FOR NEARLY three weeks, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, in California, have been on a hunger strike. They plan to continue until officials agree to improve the conditions and prison policies.

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