http://www.sfreeper.com/2009/06/11/prison-activist-slams/ The Santa Fe Reporter's blog site for breaking news and local culture Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.sfreeper.com/2009/06/11/prison-activist-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-100243 Christy Armell Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:56:13 +0000 http://www.sfreeper.com/?p=3728#comment-100243 I completely agree. We have many men and women sitting behind the bars of prisons across this country with 20, 30 year sentences or life and now in NM life without the possibility of parole. Many of these non violent offenders, such as those in prison in California under the three strikes law. It always amazes me that our criminal justice system is so screwed up, yet we take the upper hand to try and fix other countries systems before looking at our own. We have over 130 men and women exonerated from death row int his country, not to mention the hundreds who have been exonerated on non capital offenses. The media would be doing the citizens more good if they would reveal what goes on in our own backyard, instead of thousands of miles away. I completely agree. We have many men and women sitting behind the bars of prisons across this country with 20, 30 year sentences or life and now in NM life without the possibility of parole. Many of these non violent offenders, such as those in prison in California under the three strikes law. It always amazes me that our criminal justice system is so screwed up, yet we take the upper hand to try and fix other countries systems before looking at our own. We have over 130 men and women exonerated from death row int his country, not to mention the hundreds who have been exonerated on non capital offenses. The media would be doing the citizens more good if they would reveal what goes on in our own backyard, instead of thousands of miles away.

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