MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014 - NOVEMBER 2, 2014
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No more race-based lockdowns in California prisons by jennifer schlueter
by prisoners. The lockdown was solely based on race and unjustly included inmates who didn’t take part in the incident. According to the Los Angeles Times, another incident concerning a “riot between northern
block of Gramercy Place. Once help arrived, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Inside the home where the party was being held, detectives learned that 15 people were at the party before the shooting. Luckily, Please see page 4
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and southern Mexican gangs at Pelican Bay State Prison, resulted in a three-year lockdown” during which prisoners “were denied family visits, issued housing and Please see page 2
Young man suspected of shooting friend at large by Vickie Vértiz A disagreement between friends ended in murder the weekend of October 19th in Riverside. A young man who police officers identified as Cesar Ivan Luna, 23, was charged in the shooting of Jose Eloy DelaRosa, 31, of Riverside. According to the Press Enterprise, during a small house party
over the weekend, Luna was accused of fatally shooting his friend. Luna is currently at large. His whereabouts are unknown, say officials. Riverside police said that the shooting happened at approximately 1:40 a.m. the morning of Sunday, October 19th on the 8400
National nurses call on President Obama to issue executive order directing hospitals to follow highest standards for beating Ebola With concern escalating across the U.S. about the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on President Barack Obama to “invoke his executive authority” to order all U.S. hospitals to meet the highest “uniform, national standards and protocols” in order to “safely protect patients, all healthcare workers and the public.” The request, send in a letter to the President, came on a day in which NNU, the largest U.S. organization of nurses, hosted a national call-in conference in which 11,500 RNs from across the U.S. joined to discuss what steps should be taken to confront a virulent disease that the World Health Organization has termed the most significant health crisis in modern history. On the call, RNs from California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Texas described widespread concerns in their hospitals about inadequate preparedness at a time at least two nurses have been tested positive for the Ebola virus in a hospital where one patient
California High Desert State Prison, where a race-based lockdown called for a civil rights law suit - Courtesy Photo
In 2006, African American inmates of the California High Desert State Prison had been locked down for 14 months deprived from outdoor exercise, rehabilitation programs, and prison jobs after two guards had been attacked
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