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Federal judges to rule on Calif. prison crowding
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's day of reckoning has finally come for three decades of tough-on-crime policies that led to overcrowded prisons and unconstitutional conditions for inmates.

Guards: Crowded Calif. prisons neglect ill inmates
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Inmates with open, bleeding wounds routinely use communal showers and suicidal prisoners are sometimes kept for hours inside small cages, witnesses testified in a lawsuit over state prison crowding.

Gay advocates upset at shelving of Chicago school
By KAREN HAWKINS Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - As far as Miguel Garcia is concerned, Chicago already has a gay high school.

Bond won't seek re-election as NAACP chairman
BALTIMORE (AP) - NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond says he will not seek re-election as chairman, a post he has held since 1998.

Fed. Election Agency Loses Bid to Dismiss Privacy Suit
By LINDA COADY, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer
The Federal Election Commission may have violated U.S. privacy laws by getting a couple's financial records from another federal agency even though that agency obtained the records legally, a federal judge in Chicago has ruled.

 

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