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DC Guns: David Kopel and Robert Levy have this op-ed in the WSJ calling on Congress to fix DC's latest gun law. A bill called the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act, H.R. 1399 and S. 1001, is available on Thomas. Prisons Desegregating in CA: As discussed in Lauren's blog scan, California prisons, where discipline is dictated by race-based prison gangs, is beginning to comply with the Supreme Court's 2005 Johnson v. California ruling, which turned state policies that segregate prison inmates into toast. The problem with this feel-good holding by Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer and Ginsburg is that it may result in a bloodbath. A story by NPR reporter Frank Stoltze quotes inmates saying "if some guys up there at Level Three or Level Four found out that you bunked with another (race), I mean, who knows, you could get stabbed up...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).