http://www.jews4neworleans.org/2010/02/amnesia-and-excess/ Hosted by AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.jews4neworleans.org/2010/02/amnesia-and-excess/#comment-105608 Naomi Kaufman Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:24:06 +0000 http://www.jews4neworleans.org/?p=951#comment-105608 Wonderful essay. Thank you for reminding us of the huge injustices that have not been worked out in the jail system. Poignant and generally sad. Thank you for the work that you do. Would that we all took into account other people's histories and perspectives before judging them. Wonderful essay. Thank you for reminding us of the huge injustices that have not been worked out in the jail system. Poignant and generally sad. Thank you for the work that you do. Would that we all took into account other people’s histories and perspectives before judging them.

]]> http://www.jews4neworleans.org/2010/02/amnesia-and-excess/#comment-105431 Do Lee Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:59:15 +0000 http://www.jews4neworleans.org/?p=951#comment-105431 Very well done, Ora. I hope you will try to have this fine essay published where more people will read it. May I suggest that you submit it to university law school publications for a start (ex: the Stanford Law and Policy Review) or to the ACLU, or to your local Center for Peace and Justice; you will be doing a service. Warm regards, from Rachel Lee's aunt, Do (Athens, Greece) Very well done, Ora. I hope you will try to have this fine essay published where more people will read it. May I suggest that you submit it to university law school publications for a start (ex: the Stanford Law and Policy Review) or to the ACLU, or to your local Center for Peace and Justice; you will be doing a service. Warm regards, from Rachel Lee’s aunt, Do (Athens, Greece)

]]> http://www.jews4neworleans.org/2010/02/amnesia-and-excess/#comment-105251 Tina Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:19:13 +0000 http://www.jews4neworleans.org/?p=951#comment-105251 Amazing piece! Your writing is so beautiful and poignant and really gets the point across. I like the quote, \exonerees are our justice system's most obvious failures\- one, because they are not always treated as such and are blamed for their own misfortunes, and two, because clearly our justice system fails other people too. It fails kids by putting them into jail with adults, it fails convicts by dooming them to lives of unemployment even after they have done their time, it fails the poor and the minorities by imprisoning a disparaging percentage of them for crimes that all people commit. It fails people for not giving them justice or for \correcting\ them at all, rather throwing them on the ground and sweeping them away. Amazing piece! Your writing is so beautiful and poignant and really gets the point across. I like the quote, \exonerees are our justice system’s most obvious failures\- one, because they are not always treated as such and are blamed for their own misfortunes, and two, because clearly our justice system fails other people too. It fails kids by putting them into jail with adults, it fails convicts by dooming them to lives of unemployment even after they have done their time, it fails the poor and the minorities by imprisoning a disparaging percentage of them for crimes that all people commit. It fails people for not giving them justice or for \correcting\ them at all, rather throwing them on the ground and sweeping them away.

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