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CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY sits
again, reincarnate, on the Rehnquist
Court of the Modem Age. Taney's
Court, in Scott, left intact the power
of the slaver by denying constitu
tional rights to Africans, even if born
in the U.S. Rehnquist's Court, in
Mc aes key , leaves intact the power
of the state to further cheapen Black
life.
One hundred and thirty years
after Scott, and still unequal in life,
as in death.
YOUTH
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tire cycle running for 22 weeks.
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H P U Y thi integration
will help th m look
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Th EveryBuddy program I
doing wond rful work bringing
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vironment of leamin . Th Y realize
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Cow' milk for
Infants discouraged
Cow' milk and low-iron,
formulas are not appropriate
for babies younger than one
year. The American
. Academy of Pediatrics said
babies should receive breast
milk for the first 6 to 12
months.
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ble, docu
mented imbal n , here ee of
victim nd of defend nt deter
miOf'd wh therone ould live or die.
. , th court id, perfectly
co titutional.
Robert A. Burt, Y le Law
Schol r, e mined the impli -
tions of McOe key in light of the
1 c e, Loc h rt v. McCree,
where th Coun imilarly rejected
t argument th t death-qualified,
pro-pro ecution, pro- pital puni h
m nt jury offend th fundamental
constitution 1 comm nd for a fair,
imp rtialjury. Profe or Burt note :
Wh n we add this finding [i.e.,
that Lockh rt jurie tend to be white
and male because Blacks and women
are evidence gathered in McCleskey,
that capital jurie impo e the death
penalty with di proportionate fre
quency on Black who murder
whites and infrequently in re ponse
to any murders of Blacks, a grim
portrait of the American Criminal
Justice system emerges.
Thi portrait shows that law en
forcement in the mo t serious and
publicly visible cases is entrusted
predominantly to group of white
men who value white lives more than
Blacks; and thus they take special, For more information contact:
ve�geance on Blacks who murder Janet Hill, Chesterfield Community
white and are much less concerned Services, Box 92, Chesterfield, VA,
?bout the murder of Blacks. Indeed, 23832,804/275-0005 or Beth Hall of
Its low valuation of Blacks coupled the YMCA, 804/276-9622,
with its special arousal when Blacks
murder whites suggests a law enfor-
, cement regime that acts as if our
ociety were gripped by fears about,
and prepared to take preemptive
strikes against, an explosion of race'
warfare.
As of 7 !25/88, the State Court
Administrator's Office recorded 107
persons on Pennsylvania's death
row, and, of that total, 50 from
Philadelphia, alone. Of that 50, 40
were of African blood, with seven
whites, and three Hispanics.
Statewide, Blacks, only nine percent
of the population; emt!'ge as a clear
majority of Pennsylvania's death
row.
Nationally, the picture is equally
bleak, as Africans, just over 10 per
cent of the nation's total, gro� into
40 percent of America's national
death row. More often than not, in
America, capital punishment carries
a Black, brown, or red face.
From daybreak to dusk, Black
voices resound in exchanges of daily
dramas which mark time in the dead
zone; the latest on a lawyer; the latest
on a lover; tidbits of thought bounc
ing off bars of steel and walls of
stone, relentlessly, in the wait for
death.
Echoes of Dred Scott ring in
today's McCleskey opinion, again
noting the paucity of rights held by
Africans in the Land of the Free, who
"had for more than a century before
'been regarded as begins of an in-
ferior order, and altogether unfit to
associate with the white race, either
in social or political relations; and so
far inferior, that they had no rights
which the white man was bound to
respect" [Dred Scott v. Sanford 19
How. 393 (1857)].
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"hot- dding." He doe n't agr
th t it would ve th tate mOD y.
McGinni is inve tigating what
n call "diversion programs" a
olution to the problem.
"Diver ion program" are
alternative, 1 co tly incarceration
methods de igned for non-violent
criminals, which McGinni ay
make up the majority of Michigan'
prisoners.
The program McGinni is mo t
interested in expanding in
Michigan is boot camp
incarcera tion.
Currently, the state operate one
boot camp in Chelsea.
ALTHOUGHHE AID that the
tate has not yet complied olid
evidence on how beneficial boot
camps can be over prison ,
McGinnis said they are a much
cheaper olution.
Ninety days in a boot camp j
ignificantly cheaper than three
years in prison," he said.
Not everyone can qualify for boot
camp incarceration, however. A
long list of exclusions makes many
prisoners exempt, including
murders, armed robbers and exual
as auIt convicts.
"Basically, no violent offenders
can go to boot camp," McGirutis
said.
Since boot camps aren't for
everyone, another cost-cutting
option that the Department of
Corrections is looking into is
double-bunking prisoners. .
H argue
th t double-bunking (which i not
yet u ed in Michigan) create
potentially dangerous ituations,
M Ginni ay th t it ha been
u ful in oth r ta .
McGinni aid that tati ti in
in titution that double-bun
pri oner how that, when
implemented properly, ault rat
actually have dropped.
"Of cour e it' not an ideal
ituation," McGinni admitted, "but,
quit frankly, pri on i n't suppo ed
to be an ideal ituation."
OTHER PlAN are also being
con idered, including privatizing
many aspects of the corrections
y tern.
"One thing' for certai n, "
McGinnis said. "There need to be
other options (to ingle-bed pri ons).
No other Northern industrial state
comes close to locking them up as
fa t a we do."
Michigan has the seventh highest
incarceration rate in the nation.
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children are
"Older children' mortalitie
more often are due to firearms, and
(their death) occur during
arguments, criminal activity and
poor adult upervison," Ropp added,
ying that tronger gun laws and
parental supervi ion are needed.
ALLEN TIN of SOSAD
(Save Our Sons And Daughters)
agrees. Allen is the director of the
Survival Institute, SOSAD'sconflict
resolution program for children and
teens.
"SOSAD wants to change that
Wild West mentality, that attitude of
'I'm gonna get you before you get
me," Martin said. "We're training
young people to solve their conflicts
nonviolently. We also want to build
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