NAM original coverage, youth media stories, and ethnic media articles on criminal justice and it's impact on the poor and immigrant and minority communities. For more information on NAM criminal justice coverage, contact Mark Schurmann at mschurmann [at] newamericamedia [dot] org.
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Murder of Gay Puerto Rican Teen Generates Talk of Equality
Yo! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Various authors, Nov 21, 2009
Last weekend in Puerto Rico, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a 19-year-old gay teen was found decapitated, partially burned, and mutilated and left by the side of a road. Youth Outlook asked young people their reactions to the brutal murder.
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Break the Silence on Domestic Violence
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Nov 19, 2009
The pattern in the shocking murder of Flor Medrano in Mid-City Los Angeles was all too familiar. There was long-term abuse by her sometime boyfriend. The abuse included verbal and physical assaults and accusations of rape.
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Rape: America's Least Reported Crime
New America Media, News Report, Laura Goode , Oct 29, 2009
Last Saturday night, a 15-year-old girl in Richmond, Calif. survived a brutal gang rape. Reports allege that more than 20 people—genders unspecified—watched. In America a rape occurs every two minutes.
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San Jose Police Beating Stirs Distrust and Resentment
New America Media, Commentary, Raj Jayadev, Oct 29, 2009
The Phuong Ho video has elicited such outrage in San Jose, Ca., because it comes on the heels of a sequence of various public revelations of police abuse, and a matching series of failures by city leadership to respond to the demands for transparency and accountability that have spanned ethnic communities.
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