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		<title>Education grant available for low income women and children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation for Low Income Women and Children will offer 5 grants of up to $2,000 each to low income mothers who are enrolled in education and/or training programs.]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/04/20/education-grant-available-for-low-income-women-and-children/</link>
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		<title>Event: Segregation and Solitary Confinement&#8211;Cruel and Unusual Punishment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prison officials say people are placed in isolation because they are the most violent, dangerous prisoners and that this practice protects other vulnerable populations. Opponents of solitary confinement assert that these policies are a form of cruel and unusual punishment and torture. People subjected to these conditions lack human contact, which can have a severe negative impact on a person’s mental state, leading to serious mental illnesses, such as depression and in some instances—death.

New York University's Wagner's Students for Criminal Justice Reform will be hosting a panel discussion titled "Segregation and Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?" on Tuesday, March 23.]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/03/21/segregation-and-solitary-confinement-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/</link>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s organization collecting letters in support of prison closures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents is asking professionals, organizations and family members to write letters urging legislators to support the closures of four prisons and the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program, two measures in the proposed NY state budget.
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		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/03/15/childrens-organization-collecting-letters-in-support-of-prison-closures/</link>
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		<title>Maya Pope-Chappell Bids Farewell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Multimedia journalist says farewell to Lives in Focus.

We thank her for all of her work here and wish her success with the next stage of her career.]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/03/10/maya-pope-chappell-bids-farewell/</link>
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		<title>Video column: Advice to help ill relative in prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weeks column focuses on what to do if a loved one is dying in prison. I have provided some resources regarding medical release and grief counseling for families facing this sad situation. If you or someone you know is affected by this issue, the resources included in the video column are:
Prison Families of New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/03/05/video-column-advice-to-help-ill-relative-in-prison/</link>
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		<title>Poem inspired from visiting someone in prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Suzette Soltero wrote the following poem while visiting her ex-husband who is serving 28 years and has completed 18 so far):






Suzette with her ex-husband



The trip is dreadful, lots of trees pretty houses and women with children in a van going to visit loved ones that have been away in &#8220;confined quarters.&#8221;
Long roads with minimal lights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/02/22/poem-inspired-from-visiting-prison/</link>
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		<title>Your take: First words at the homecoming?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What's the first thing you will say to your loved one the moment he or she returns home after prison?]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/02/19/your-take-first-words-at-the-homecoming/</link>
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		<title>Shifting community to Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After two years of enduring an incessant stream of spam at our Ning community site, we are moving to Facebook where people can actually share their thoughts, feelings and experiences.]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/02/13/shifting-community-to-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Phone-in question: How to help someone dying of cancer in prison?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone have advice for Elizabeth, whose husband is dying in a prison in Jacksonville, Florida? ]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/02/13/phone-in-question-how-to-help-someone-dying-of-cancer-in-prison/</link>
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		<title>Site: Living as a spouse of an inmate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the life of a spouse in prison?

The author, who goes by the name K St. John, writes that she shares her feelings of living everyday as a single parent while her spouse is in prison. ]]></description>
		<link>http://livesinfocus.org/prison/2010/02/12/site-living-as-a-spouse-of-an-inmate/</link>
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