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He also said he would instruct his staff to continue educating outside doctors who provide medical care on contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates expressed skepticism. Courtney Hooks, spokeswoman for Justice Now, in Oakland, said her group continues to receive reports from inmates about prison doctors suggesting sterilization to inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooks asked lawmakers to consider tracking all prison sterilizations and requiring reports to the Medical Board of California about doctors who perform them. She also said statistics on individuals who were sterilized would improve future monitoring by allowing officials to track whether some groups or genders were disproportionally affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Verbal assurances that abuses have stopped are not sufficient to ensure sterilization abuses will not reoccur. 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So far, he said, his staff hasn’t found any documents explaining why it was sent out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I determined not to discipline doctors and didn’t refer cases to the medical board,” Kelso said. “It seems to me that we had a real conflict in direction from headquarters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials told lawmakers that the newly uncovered document didn’t appear to authorize overriding the restrictions on tubal ligations, but instead provided guidance on billing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nora Wilson, attorney for Justice Now, called the new document “weird” and questioned the interpretation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they know they have been operating illegally and want cover,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said she and other Justice Now representatives would be meeting with the federal receivership next week. 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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP and KQED) — With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder called Monday for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106498\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106498 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/ericholder.jpg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Eric Holder in 2013 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Eric Holder in 2013 (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Holder said he also favors diverting people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expanding a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, nonviolent offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate — not merely to convict, warehouse and forget,\" Holder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one important change, the attorney general said he's altering Justice Department policy so that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to large-scale organizations, gangs or cartels won't be charged with offenses that impose mandatory minimum sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory minimum prison sentences, a product of the government's war on drugs that began in the 1980s, limit the discretion of judges to impose shorter prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oteyZs8Yvv4\" target=\"_blank\">Full speech: Eric Holder speaks to American Bar Association in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oteyZs8Yvv4]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the changed policy, the attorney general said defendants will be charged with offenses for which accompanying sentences \"are better suited to their individual conduct, rather than excessive prison terms more appropriate for violent criminals or drug kingpins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said today at a press conference after Holder's address that \"arguably you could say that the federal government is following the San Francisco model.” Gascón said San Francisco has lowered the number of drug prosecutions by 69 percent, increasing the use of diversion programs and community-based supervision instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he was \"looking at the possibility of actually going through the initiative systems for 2014 and exploring the possibility of making all simple possessions of drugs a misdemeanor. That would automatically reduce the sentencing to one year. I think it’s the right thing to do. “\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I think it’s the right thing to do.\"\n\u003cp>--SF DA Gascón on possibility of making some cases of drug possession a misdemeanor\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Holder's comments also drew bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he is encouraged by the Obama administration's view that mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders promote injustice and do not serve public safety. Paul and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced legislation in March to grant federal judges greater flexibility in sentencing all crimes where a mandatory minimum punishment is considered unnecessary. Leahy commended Holder for his efforts on the issue and said his committee will hold a hearing on the bill next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No.2 Democrat in the Senate, said he looks forward to working on the issue with Holder and senators on both sides of the aisle who support change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of Holder's initiative on mandatory minimum sentences could be significant, said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group involved in research and policy reform of the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/12/eric-holder-mandatory-minimum-sentencing/#aba\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Tweets of Holder's speech\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are roughly 25,000 drug convictions in federal court each year, and 45 percent of those are for lower-level offenses such as street-level dealers and couriers and people who deliver drugs, said Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanswered question is how each of the 94 U.S. Attorney offices around the country will implement changes, given the authority of prosecutors to exercise discretion in how they handle their criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans and Hispanics likely would benefit the most from a change. African-Americans account for about 30 percent of federal drug convictions each year and Hispanics account for 40 percent, according to Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If state policymakers were to adopt similar policies, the impact of changes at the state level could be even broader, said Mauer. Currently, about 225,000 state prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. One national survey from 15 years ago by the Sentencing Project found that 58 percent of state drug offenders had no history of violence or high-level drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These proportions on state prisoners may have shifted somewhat since that time, but it's still likely that a substantial proportion of state drug offenders fall into that category today,\" said Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent above capacity and hold more than 219,000 inmates — with almost half of them serving time for drug-related crimes and many of them with substance use disorders. In addition, 9 million to 10 million prisoners go through local jails each year. Holder praised state and local law enforcement officials for already instituting some of the types of changes he said must be made at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggressive enforcement of federal criminal laws is necessary, but \"we cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation,\" Holder said. \"Today, a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration traps too many Americans and weakens too many communities. However, many aspects of our criminal justice system may actually exacerbate this problem, rather than alleviate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder said mandatory minimum sentences \"breed disrespect for the system. When applied indiscriminately, they do not serve public safety. They have had a disabling effect on communities. And they are ultimately counterproductive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder said new approaches — which he is calling the \"Smart On Crime\" initiative — are the result of a Justice Department review he launched early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said some issues are best handled at the state or local level and said he has directed federal prosecutors across the country to develop locally tailored guidelines for determining when federal charges should be filed, and when they should not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By targeting the most serious offenses, prosecuting the most dangerous criminals, directing assistance to crime hot spots, and pursuing new ways to promote public safety, deterrence, efficiency and fairness — we can become both smarter and tougher on crime,\" Holder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said 17 states have directed money away from prison construction and toward programs and services such as treatment and supervision that are designed to reduce the problem of repeat offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kentucky, legislation has reserved prison beds for the most serious offenders and refocused resources on community supervision. The state, Holder said, is projected to reduce its prison population by more than 3,000 over the next 10 years, saving more than $400 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cited investments in drug treatment in Texas for nonviolent offenders and changes to parole policies, which he said brought about a reduction in the prison population of more than 5,000 inmates last year. He said similar efforts helped Arkansas reduce its prison population by more than 1,400. He also pointed to Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Hawaii as states that have improved public safety while preserving limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder also said the department is expanding a policy for considering compassionate release for inmates facing extraordinary or compelling circumstances, and who pose no threat to the public. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP and KQED) — With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder called Monday for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106498\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106498 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/ericholder.jpg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Eric Holder in 2013 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Eric Holder in 2013 (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Holder said he also favors diverting people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expanding a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, nonviolent offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate — not merely to convict, warehouse and forget,\" Holder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one important change, the attorney general said he's altering Justice Department policy so that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to large-scale organizations, gangs or cartels won't be charged with offenses that impose mandatory minimum sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory minimum prison sentences, a product of the government's war on drugs that began in the 1980s, limit the discretion of judges to impose shorter prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oteyZs8Yvv4\" target=\"_blank\">Full speech: Eric Holder speaks to American Bar Association in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oteyZs8Yvv4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oteyZs8Yvv4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the changed policy, the attorney general said defendants will be charged with offenses for which accompanying sentences \"are better suited to their individual conduct, rather than excessive prison terms more appropriate for violent criminals or drug kingpins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said today at a press conference after Holder's address that \"arguably you could say that the federal government is following the San Francisco model.” Gascón said San Francisco has lowered the number of drug prosecutions by 69 percent, increasing the use of diversion programs and community-based supervision instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he was \"looking at the possibility of actually going through the initiative systems for 2014 and exploring the possibility of making all simple possessions of drugs a misdemeanor. That would automatically reduce the sentencing to one year. I think it’s the right thing to do. “\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I think it’s the right thing to do.\"\n\u003cp>--SF DA Gascón on possibility of making some cases of drug possession a misdemeanor\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Holder's comments also drew bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he is encouraged by the Obama administration's view that mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders promote injustice and do not serve public safety. Paul and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced legislation in March to grant federal judges greater flexibility in sentencing all crimes where a mandatory minimum punishment is considered unnecessary. Leahy commended Holder for his efforts on the issue and said his committee will hold a hearing on the bill next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No.2 Democrat in the Senate, said he looks forward to working on the issue with Holder and senators on both sides of the aisle who support change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of Holder's initiative on mandatory minimum sentences could be significant, said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group involved in research and policy reform of the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/12/eric-holder-mandatory-minimum-sentencing/#aba\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Tweets of Holder's speech\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are roughly 25,000 drug convictions in federal court each year, and 45 percent of those are for lower-level offenses such as street-level dealers and couriers and people who deliver drugs, said Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanswered question is how each of the 94 U.S. Attorney offices around the country will implement changes, given the authority of prosecutors to exercise discretion in how they handle their criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans and Hispanics likely would benefit the most from a change. African-Americans account for about 30 percent of federal drug convictions each year and Hispanics account for 40 percent, according to Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If state policymakers were to adopt similar policies, the impact of changes at the state level could be even broader, said Mauer. Currently, about 225,000 state prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. One national survey from 15 years ago by the Sentencing Project found that 58 percent of state drug offenders had no history of violence or high-level drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These proportions on state prisoners may have shifted somewhat since that time, but it's still likely that a substantial proportion of state drug offenders fall into that category today,\" said Mauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent above capacity and hold more than 219,000 inmates — with almost half of them serving time for drug-related crimes and many of them with substance use disorders. In addition, 9 million to 10 million prisoners go through local jails each year. Holder praised state and local law enforcement officials for already instituting some of the types of changes he said must be made at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggressive enforcement of federal criminal laws is necessary, but \"we cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation,\" Holder said. \"Today, a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration traps too many Americans and weakens too many communities. However, many aspects of our criminal justice system may actually exacerbate this problem, rather than alleviate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder said mandatory minimum sentences \"breed disrespect for the system. When applied indiscriminately, they do not serve public safety. They have had a disabling effect on communities. And they are ultimately counterproductive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder said new approaches — which he is calling the \"Smart On Crime\" initiative — are the result of a Justice Department review he launched early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said some issues are best handled at the state or local level and said he has directed federal prosecutors across the country to develop locally tailored guidelines for determining when federal charges should be filed, and when they should not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By targeting the most serious offenses, prosecuting the most dangerous criminals, directing assistance to crime hot spots, and pursuing new ways to promote public safety, deterrence, efficiency and fairness — we can become both smarter and tougher on crime,\" Holder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said 17 states have directed money away from prison construction and toward programs and services such as treatment and supervision that are designed to reduce the problem of repeat offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kentucky, legislation has reserved prison beds for the most serious offenders and refocused resources on community supervision. The state, Holder said, is projected to reduce its prison population by more than 3,000 over the next 10 years, saving more than $400 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cited investments in drug treatment in Texas for nonviolent offenders and changes to parole policies, which he said brought about a reduction in the prison population of more than 5,000 inmates last year. He said similar efforts helped Arkansas reduce its prison population by more than 1,400. He also pointed to Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Hawaii as states that have improved public safety while preserving limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holder also said the department is expanding a policy for considering compassionate release for inmates facing extraordinary or compelling circumstances, and who pose no threat to the public. He said the expansion will include elderly inmates who did not commit violent crimes and who have served significant portions of their sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"aba\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: The American Bar Association Tweeted Eric Holder's speech. Some highlights...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>AG Holder: It is our time and our duty to fix \"broken incarceration system.\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ABAAnnual&src=hash\">#ABAAnnual\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— American Bar (@ABAesq) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ABAesq/statuses/366971357872926720\">August 12, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Holder: It is shameful that black males face penalities 20% stiffer than white male counterparts. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ABAAnnual&src=hash\">#ABAAnnual\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— American Bar (@ABAesq) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ABAesq/statuses/366974852839636994\">August 12, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Holder: We must re-calibrate America's criminal justice system, give federal judges more discretion in sentencing. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ABAAnnual&src=hash\">#ABAAnnual\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— American Bar (@ABAesq) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ABAesq/statuses/366975657206497282\">August 12, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Archcriminal Whitey Bulger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/12/whitey-bulger-verdict/#ap\">convicted today\u003c/a> in Boston on murder and racketeering charges, and he faces life in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 13. Not the first time he's been there, of course. As we wrote about in 2011, when Bulger was captured after 17 years on the lam, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz from 1959-1963, part of a nine-year stretch incurred for a string of armed robberies. Here's his\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\" target=\"_blank\"> mug shot\u003c/a> at The Rock ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-106517 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/whitey-bulger.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Bureau of Prisons\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bureau of Prisons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And here's a reprint of a 1988 \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:agWlWX6d4yMJ:rope.wrko-am.fimc.net/bulger/herald1.pdf+whitey+bolger+alcatraz&hl=en&gl=usboston%20herald%201988\">Boston Herald article\u003c/a> about the relationship between Bulger and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+carnes\">Clarence Carnes\u003c/a> (also known as \"The Choctaw Kid\") that developed at the island prison. Carnes, a Native American, received a life sentence at the age of 16 for holding up a gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the article, Bulger said that Carnes had taken him under his wing at Alcatraz. When Carnes died, Bulger had his body exhumed from a \"pauper's grave\" outside a Missouri prison hospital and sent to a burying ground on Choctaw land in Oklahoma. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ap\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full story on Bulger's conviction today, from AP ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSTON (AP) — James \"Whitey\" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, 83, showed no reaction upon hearing the verdict, which brought to a close a case that not only transfixed the city with its grisly violence but exposed corruption inside the Boston FBI and an overly cozy relationship between the bureau and its underworld snitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger was charged primarily with racketeering, a catchall offense that listed 33 criminal acts — among them, 19 murders that he allegedly helped orchestrate or carried out himself during the 1970s and '80s while he led the Winter Hill Gang, Boston's ruthless Irish mob. The racketeering charge also included acts of extortion, conspiracy, money-laundering and drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 4½ days of deliberations, the jury decided he took part in 11 of those murders, along with nearly all the other crimes, as well as a laundry list of other counts, including possession of machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger could get life in prison at his sentencing Nov. 13. But given his age, even a modest term could amount to a life sentence for the slightly stooped, white-bearded Bulger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the two-month trial, federal prosecutors portrayed him as a cold-blooded, hands-on boss who killed anyone he saw as a threat, along with innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, according to testimony, he would go off and take a nap while his underlings handled the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Bulger was accused of strangling two women with his bare hands, shooting two men in the head after chaining them to chairs and interrogating them for hours, and opening fire on two men as they left a South Boston restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's sinister crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie \"The Departed,\" was seen for years as a kind of benevolent tough guy who bought Thanksgiving turkeys for fellow residents of working-class South Boston and kept hard drugs out of the neighborhood. But that image was shattered when authorities started digging up bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not some Robin Hood story about a guy who kept angel dust and heroin out of Southie,\" prosecutor Fred Wyshak told the jury in closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger skipped town in 1994 after being tipped off — by a retired FBI agent, John Connolly, it turned out — that he was about to be indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disappearance proved a major embarrassment to the FBI when it came out at court hearings and trials that Bulger had been an informant from 1975 to 1990, feeding the bureau information on the rival New England Mafia, as well as members of his own gang, while he continued to kill and intimidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proceedings also revealed that Bulger and his gang paid off several FBI agents and state and Boston police officers, dispensing Christmas envelopes of cash and cases of fine wine to get information on search warrants, wiretaps and investigations and stay one step ahead of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his trial, Bulger's lawyers tried to turn the tables on the government, detailing the corruption inside the FBI and accusing prosecutors of offering absurdly generous deals to three former Bulger loyalists to testify against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense portrayed the three key witnesses — gangster Stephen \"The Rifleman\" Flemmi, hit man John Martorano and Bulger protege Kevin Weeks — as pathological liars who pinned their own crimes on Bulger so they could get reduced sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overall, the defense barely contested many of the charges against Bulger. In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loan-sharking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers did strongly deny he killed women, something Bulger evidently regarded as a violation of his underworld code of honor. The jury ultimately found he had a role in the strangling of one woman — Flemmi's stepdaughter — but it could not reach a decision on the other woman, Flemmi's girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said the women were killed because they knew too much about the gang's business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also spent a surprising amount of time disputing he was a \"rat\" — a label that seemed to set off the hotheaded Bulger more than anything else, causing him to erupt in obscenities in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's lawyers argued that Connolly, Bulger's supposed handler inside the FBI, fabricated Bulger's thick informant file to cover up his corrupt relationship with the gangster and advance his own career. At the time, bringing down the Mafia was a major priority for the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's witnesses also included numerous drug dealers, bookmakers and legitimate businessmen who described terrifying encounters with Bulger in which he ordered them to pay up or take a beating or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developer Richard Buccheri said Bulger threatened to kill him and his family if he did not pay $200,000. Buccheri related how Bulger slammed his hand on a table in anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With that, he takes the shotgun that was on the table — he sticks it in my mouth,\" Buccheri said as spectators in the courtroom gasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the trial, Bulger's lawyers said he would take the stand and detail the corruption inside the FBI. Bulger planned to argue he was given immunity for all his crimes by a now-dead federal prosecutor. But Judge Denise Casper disallowed such a defense, and Bulger did not testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel that I've been choked off from having an opportunity to give an adequate defense,\" he complained to the judge as the trial wound down. \"My thing is, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't get a fair trial, and this is a sham, and do what youse want with me. That's it. That's my final word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's life story fascinated Bostonians for decades. He grew up in a South Boston housing project and quickly became involved in crime, while his younger brother, William, rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts as state Senate president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Bulger was forced to resign as president of the University of Massachusetts system in 2003 after he testified before a congressional committee investigating the FBI's ties to his brother and acknowledged receiving a call from him after he fled Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years earlier, William Bulger told a grand jury he did not urge his brother to surrender because he didn't \"think it would be in his interest to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Archcriminal Whitey Bulger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/12/whitey-bulger-verdict/#ap\">convicted today\u003c/a> in Boston on murder and racketeering charges, and he faces life in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 13. Not the first time he's been there, of course. As we wrote about in 2011, when Bulger was captured after 17 years on the lam, he was incarcerated at Alcatraz from 1959-1963, part of a nine-year stretch incurred for a string of armed robberies. Here's his\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\" target=\"_blank\"> mug shot\u003c/a> at The Rock ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcatrazalumniassoc.org/bad_guys/pages/05.html\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-106517 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/whitey-bulger.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Bureau of Prisons\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bureau of Prisons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And here's a reprint of a 1988 \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:agWlWX6d4yMJ:rope.wrko-am.fimc.net/bulger/herald1.pdf+whitey+bolger+alcatraz&hl=en&gl=usboston%20herald%201988\">Boston Herald article\u003c/a> about the relationship between Bulger and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+carnes\">Clarence Carnes\u003c/a> (also known as \"The Choctaw Kid\") that developed at the island prison. Carnes, a Native American, received a life sentence at the age of 16 for holding up a gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the article, Bulger said that Carnes had taken him under his wing at Alcatraz. When Carnes died, Bulger had his body exhumed from a \"pauper's grave\" outside a Missouri prison hospital and sent to a burying ground on Choctaw land in Oklahoma. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ap\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full story on Bulger's conviction today, from AP ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSTON (AP) — James \"Whitey\" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, 83, showed no reaction upon hearing the verdict, which brought to a close a case that not only transfixed the city with its grisly violence but exposed corruption inside the Boston FBI and an overly cozy relationship between the bureau and its underworld snitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger was charged primarily with racketeering, a catchall offense that listed 33 criminal acts — among them, 19 murders that he allegedly helped orchestrate or carried out himself during the 1970s and '80s while he led the Winter Hill Gang, Boston's ruthless Irish mob. The racketeering charge also included acts of extortion, conspiracy, money-laundering and drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 4½ days of deliberations, the jury decided he took part in 11 of those murders, along with nearly all the other crimes, as well as a laundry list of other counts, including possession of machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger could get life in prison at his sentencing Nov. 13. But given his age, even a modest term could amount to a life sentence for the slightly stooped, white-bearded Bulger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the two-month trial, federal prosecutors portrayed him as a cold-blooded, hands-on boss who killed anyone he saw as a threat, along with innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, according to testimony, he would go off and take a nap while his underlings handled the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Bulger was accused of strangling two women with his bare hands, shooting two men in the head after chaining them to chairs and interrogating them for hours, and opening fire on two men as they left a South Boston restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's sinister crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie \"The Departed,\" was seen for years as a kind of benevolent tough guy who bought Thanksgiving turkeys for fellow residents of working-class South Boston and kept hard drugs out of the neighborhood. But that image was shattered when authorities started digging up bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not some Robin Hood story about a guy who kept angel dust and heroin out of Southie,\" prosecutor Fred Wyshak told the jury in closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger skipped town in 1994 after being tipped off — by a retired FBI agent, John Connolly, it turned out — that he was about to be indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 16 years on the run, Bulger was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. He was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger evade the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disappearance proved a major embarrassment to the FBI when it came out at court hearings and trials that Bulger had been an informant from 1975 to 1990, feeding the bureau information on the rival New England Mafia, as well as members of his own gang, while he continued to kill and intimidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proceedings also revealed that Bulger and his gang paid off several FBI agents and state and Boston police officers, dispensing Christmas envelopes of cash and cases of fine wine to get information on search warrants, wiretaps and investigations and stay one step ahead of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his trial, Bulger's lawyers tried to turn the tables on the government, detailing the corruption inside the FBI and accusing prosecutors of offering absurdly generous deals to three former Bulger loyalists to testify against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense portrayed the three key witnesses — gangster Stephen \"The Rifleman\" Flemmi, hit man John Martorano and Bulger protege Kevin Weeks — as pathological liars who pinned their own crimes on Bulger so they could get reduced sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overall, the defense barely contested many of the charges against Bulger. In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loan-sharking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers did strongly deny he killed women, something Bulger evidently regarded as a violation of his underworld code of honor. The jury ultimately found he had a role in the strangling of one woman — Flemmi's stepdaughter — but it could not reach a decision on the other woman, Flemmi's girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said the women were killed because they knew too much about the gang's business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also spent a surprising amount of time disputing he was a \"rat\" — a label that seemed to set off the hotheaded Bulger more than anything else, causing him to erupt in obscenities in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's lawyers argued that Connolly, Bulger's supposed handler inside the FBI, fabricated Bulger's thick informant file to cover up his corrupt relationship with the gangster and advance his own career. At the time, bringing down the Mafia was a major priority for the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's witnesses also included numerous drug dealers, bookmakers and legitimate businessmen who described terrifying encounters with Bulger in which he ordered them to pay up or take a beating or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developer Richard Buccheri said Bulger threatened to kill him and his family if he did not pay $200,000. Buccheri related how Bulger slammed his hand on a table in anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With that, he takes the shotgun that was on the table — he sticks it in my mouth,\" Buccheri said as spectators in the courtroom gasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the trial, Bulger's lawyers said he would take the stand and detail the corruption inside the FBI. Bulger planned to argue he was given immunity for all his crimes by a now-dead federal prosecutor. But Judge Denise Casper disallowed such a defense, and Bulger did not testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel that I've been choked off from having an opportunity to give an adequate defense,\" he complained to the judge as the trial wound down. \"My thing is, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't get a fair trial, and this is a sham, and do what youse want with me. That's it. That's my final word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulger's life story fascinated Bostonians for decades. 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The fledgling has embarked on intensive hunting forays, even \"mugging\" a house sparrow and competing with his parents, beak-to-beak, for insects and worms — food he delivered to his younger brother and two sisters in the nest. (Elaine Miller Bond / \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/PhotoWeek130809feedingfrenz.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130809feedingfrenz\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nSeabirds gathered by the thousands at Ocean Beach Sunday afternoon, Aug. 4, to feast on a school of small fish in an extraordinary \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2013/08/04/thousands-of-seabirds-gather-for-ocean-beach-feeding-frenzy/\">near-shore feeding frenzy\u003c/a> that lasted for hours. 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The same inmates organized the current protest that began on July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis alleges the four hunger strike leaders, including Castellanos, are in the upper echelons of major prison gangs and continue to pose a serious security threat despite being segregated from the general prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody's seen the movie 'The Godfather.' Everybody's seen how the godfather himself never pulled a trigger, never strangled anybody, didn't run the rackets, didn't run the booze. 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He wasn't released from isolation until his release from prison eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lira eventually won a judgment in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in part for psychological damage he suffered while locked in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Ernesto's case, I think it's very emblematic of the fact that people can be placed in solitary confinement for the littlest of reasons: for having a drawing, for having an address in an address book, without confirming or denying whether that address was used for furthering gang activity,\" said Charles Carbone, an attorney who has represented dozens of Pelican Bay inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2011 hunger strike, state officials have made changes to gang policies, which could keep low-level offenders like Lira out of isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the new policy focuses on locking down inmates who have committed specific offenses for gangs or who are involved in an active conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also provides incentives to allow inmates to work their way out of the units through better behavior. This is known as a step-down program, which usually does not require inmates to debrief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former prison gang leaders like Rene Enriquez say the plan could work. Enriquez was a top leader in the Mexican Mafia who spent 10 years in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit before deciding to leave the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a wonderful concept,\" Enriquez said. \"It would have saved me a whole lot of grief. It might have taken me off the hit list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enriquez’s 2004 debriefing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEvsD7pyp5w\">video\u003c/a> has attracted more than 600,000 hits on YouTube. 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The prison’s Security Housing Unit goes a step further, locking inmates identified as prison gang members or associates in a warren of concrete cells where the only view of the outside world is framed on small television sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inmates have been housed in the units since Pelican Bay opened its gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials say the lengthy confinement and extreme security measures are necessary to curb the ability of gang leaders to pass orders to subordinates in other prisons and on the streets. And they point to inmates like Arturo Castellanos to make their case. Castellanos was convicted of murder in Los Angeles County in 1979 and sentenced to 26 years to life. But his life of crime flourished behind bars, according to prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an inmate, Castellanos’ disciplinary record includes six stabbings and various drug violations. 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