Tune in tonight, Thursday at 10 p.m. on KTVU Channel 2 News to see a report on the "Ban the Box" issue.

What is "Ban the Box" ???
The elimination of the questions about past convictions on initial

LA Sheriff Launches Probe Into Alleged Inmate Beating

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES—Sheriff's officials launched an internal criminal investigation Tuesday into the alleged beating of a Los Angeles County jail inmate by deputies that was witnessed by an ACLU staffer last month.

Spokesman Steve Whitmore said the sheriff's office of independent review will look into the incident, in which two deputies allegedly hit and kicked an unconscious man on Jan. 24.

Al Jazeera English television's FAULT LINES program is looking into prisoners with deaf or hard-of-hearing issues.  Please contact them if you have info. on treatment, conditions and situations that you think would interest them.  Send to:  Jeremy Young, producer, Al Jazeera English, Fault Lines, 1627 K Street, 11th Floor, Washington, DC  20006.  202-496-4543  or  Jeremy.Young@aljazeera.net

On Wednesday January 26th, Oakland Police shot and killed 19 year-old Martin Flenaugh near San Leandro Blvd in response to a report of shots being fired. This has been yet another murder of a young member of our oppressed Oakland community.... “Marty”, Raheim Brown, along with “Jody” Woodfox, Derrick Jones, Lovell Mixon, and Oscar Grant to name a few, are not just names you read about in the news. They are connected to us throug...h family and community yet we are killed off and then passed off as some violent thugs by society.

Updates to the prisoners voices blog are now up! Taken directly from letters we receive at the PARC office, these accounts give you some insight into the daily lives of prisoners in America.

Georgia Prison Watch

Community resource for monitoring the treatment of prisoners by the State of Georgia. Documenting Human Rights Abuses for those imprisoned - Prisoners speaking up for Humanity

Wednesday, January 26th
at CITY HALL (14th & Broadway), 3:00pm

Join us as we rally & picket,500 STRONG, to voice our opposition and solutions to the "gang" injunctions! We will also be sending representatives from North, East, and West Oakland to the City Attorney’s office to express our opposition to the injunctions and our proposals for alternative strategies to improve public safety.

People will be gathering at MacArthur, Fruitvale, and West Oakland BART stations from 2:00-2:30pm to leave as groups.

Judge denies Calif death row inmate's DNA test bid

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/19/state/n104831S43.DTL#ixzz1BXKXglYk