[Peace-discuss] [Discuss] News-Gazette and WILL coverage on last night's hearing on the draft report

[John W.]

No, Karen, you correctly perceived the sexist double standard which still
pervades many, many aspects of our society.



On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Discuss List,
>
> After the county board open meeting last night about the jail needs
> assessment report, States Attorney Julia Rietz approached me to clear
> her name or something.
>
> She told us a story that was supposed to impress us as to how
> wonderful she is, but the more I think about it, the more appalled I
> am.
>
> Yesterday Julia had to decide who to prosecute for the following
> event. 3 people at the transportation building attacked a man to steal
> his new cell phone still in the bag from the store. The event was
> caught on the surveillance cameras at the Transportation Building.
> Julia got a phone call from the Principal of the school where all 3
> attackers attend school. But the plea was only for the girl involved
> -- that she would miss finals and she was a good student. Julia
> released the girl and only the girl. As if the other two did not have
> valuable things in their lives that they would miss by being locked
> up. As if the girl could be excused for her crime because she had good
> grades. The more I think about this story and that Julia was holding
> it up as a sign of how wonderful she is at her job, the sicker I feel.
> Am I missing something?
>
> -karen medina
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:33 AM, James Kilgore <jjincu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Fairly extensive coverage of the hearing last night.
> >
> > News-Gazette:
> >
> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-05-02/jail-report-comes-criticism-hearing.html
> >
> > WILL:
> >
> http://will.illinois.edu/news/story/many-critical-of-consultants-criminal-justice-report
> >
> >
> > --
> > James Kilgore
> > Research Scholar
> > Center for African Studies
> > University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
> > check the website for my new book: http://freedomneverrests.com
>
>
>
> --
> -- karen medina
> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
> Twain
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss-communitycourtwatch
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20130503/f96f1e54/attachment.html>