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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 19, 2022

Bring transparency to our prison system!

As an example, one of my correspondents wrote to me that he is Jewish, and he had heard that some fellow inmates who were skinheads had a “hit” out on him. He further wrote to me that he also knew that the warden and other correctional officers were aware of the threat, but they did nothing to protect him. Soon thereafter he was attacked by those two men with a shiv, which is a homemade knife, and stabbed seven times in the back – all the while they were yelling “Die Jew, die!”

James P. Gray

ADR Services Inc.

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USC Law School

James is a retired judge of the Orange County Superior Court, a private mediator and arbitrator with ADR Services Inc., the author of "Wearing the Robe: the Art and Responsibilities of Judging in Today's Courts" (Square One Press, 2009), and the 2012 Libertarian candidate for vice president, along with Gov. Gary Johnson as the candidate for president.

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Guest Column

A year ago this past Fourth of July I was on the radio show Coast to Coast with George Noory, discussing our nation’s Criminal Justice System. Thereafter I received letters from twelve men who are incarcerated in prisons all around our country. So I turned that into an opportunity to ask them to describe prison life, including the good, the bad and the ugly. Nine of them responded, and since then the number has ne...

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