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		<title>April 30 hearing on bills to speed death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/23/april-30-hearing-on-bills-to-speed-death-penalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot from having successfully opposed last year’s ballot measure to abolish California’s death penalty, prosecutors now are pushing legislation to put condemned inmates to death faster. The two bills by state Sen. Joel Anderson, R-El Cajon, and sponsored by the California District Attorneys Association, will be heard next Tuesday, April 30 by the state Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland is about to abolish the death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/15/maryland-is-about-to-abolish-the-death-penalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 34]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=22484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maryland lawmakers today approved what California voters narrowly rejected a few months ago: abolition of the death penalty. The Maryland House of Delegates voted 82-56 to replace that state’s death penalty with life in prison without possibility of parole; the state Senate had approved the bill 27-20 last week. Gov. Martin O’Malley had introduced the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups sue Bowen over inmate voting rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/03/07/groups-sue-bowen-over-inmate-voting-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/03/07/groups-sue-bowen-over-inmate-voting-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debra Bowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter registration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All of Us or None]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[county jails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inmates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Services for Prisoners with Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realignment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice Law Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three groups sued California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and San Francisco’s elections director Wednesday, asking the court to ensure that more than 85,000 people sent to county jails instead of state prisons under the recent “realignment” can vote. All of Us or None, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and the League of Women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill on media access to prisoners advances</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/bill-on-media-access-to-prisoners-advances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/bill-on-media-access-to-prisoners-advances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ella Baker Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inmates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Assembly voted 47-22 today to pass a Bay Area lawmaker’s bill that would lift the ban on media interviews with specific inmates in California’s prisons. Since the ban on pre-arranged inmate interviews went into effect in 1996, bill author Tom Ammiano noted, eight versions of this bill have been vetoed by three governors. “Independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death penalty abolition measure cleared by AG</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/21/death-penalty-abolition-measure-cleared-by-ag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/21/death-penalty-abolition-measure-cleared-by-ag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Attorney General’s office has cleared for petition circulation a proposed ballot initiative that would abolish California’s death penalty, replacing it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Here’s the AG’s title and summary, released yesterday: DEATH PENALTY REPEAL. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Repeals death penalty as maximum punishment for persons found guilty of murder and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death row abolition bill yanked, bound for ballot</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/25/death-row-abolition-bill-yanked-bound-for-ballot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/25/death-row-abolition-bill-yanked-bound-for-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Loni Hancock today abandoned her bill that would’ve abolished California’s death penalty, even as a coalition supporting it vowed to take it to voters as a ballot measure instead. Hancock, D-Berkeley, withdrew SB 490 from consideration by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which was scheduled to vote on the bill today. “The votes were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing tomorrow on California prison SHUs</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/22/hearing-tomorrow-on-california-prison-shus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/22/hearing-tomorrow-on-california-prison-shus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Carbone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legal Services for Prisoners with Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Assembly Public Safety Committee will hold an informational hearing tomorrow on the state prison system’s “Secure Housing Units,” which were targeted by inmates’ recent hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison and other sites around California. The hearing at the State Capitol, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., will be streamed live on the Assembly’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The prison hunger strike is over&#8230; or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/21/the-prison-hunger-strike-is-over-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/21/the-prison-hunger-strike-is-over-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Secretary Matthew Cate issued a statement this morning saying inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison had ended their hunger strike. “Hunger strikes are a dangerous and ineffective way for prisoners to attempt to negotiate,” Cate said in his news release. “This strike was ordered by prison gang leaders, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audit finds lousy bookkeeping in Calif. prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/20/audit-finds-lousy-bookkeeping-in-calif-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/20/audit-finds-lousy-bookkeeping-in-calif-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Chiang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lousy internal control policies in California’s prison system puts millions of taxpayers’ dollars at risk of fraud and abuse, according to an audit released today by state Controller John Chiang. “My auditors found the CDCR has grossly inadequate procedures in place for collecting overpayment of salaries and travel advances made through the agency’s office revolving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death penalty author to argue for its abolition</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/06/death-penalty-author-to-argue-for-its-abolition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/06/death-penalty-author-to-argue-for-its-abolition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Heller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An author of California’s death-penalty law as it exists today will testify for its abolition tomorrow, an East Bay lawmaker announced. Don Heller, a former prosecutor who authored the successful Proposition 7 of 1978 to broaden the capital punishment California had just reinstated the previous year, will testify to the Assembly Public Safety Committee in [...]]]></description>
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