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• Dillion Toscano wrote a new blog post: Prisoners Education Network   1 day, 17 hours ago
  

  Right now recidivism in Washington State is near 70%. That means that seven out of ten prisoners released will return to prison within three years. Prisoners who earn college degrees before release have a 90% chance of never returning to prison.

  The Prisoners Education Networks program University Behind Bars exists to improve these odds.

  If you live

• Dillion Toscano wrote a new blog post: Kingpin convicted in Colo. and Ariz. gets 17 years | World news | guardian.co.uk   5 days, 12 hours ago
  

  Associated Press Writer= DENVER (AP) — A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison for trafficking drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Miguel Angel Caro Quintero pleaded guilty last fall to one count of racketeering in Colorado and one count of conspiracy to

• Dillion Toscano wrote a new blog post: Supreme Court rejects California’s prison appeal | McClatchy   5 days, 13 hours ago
  

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday did exactly what it indicated it would do more than four months ago: It rejected California’s appeal of a lower court’s order that the state draft and submit a plan to reduce its prison population.

  Supreme Court rejects California’s prison appeal | McClatchy.

• Lizzy Campbell and Jorge are now friends   5 days, 20 hours ago