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Jena 6' beating case wraps up with plea deal?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

JENA, La. ? Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won't serve jail time, ending a case that thrust a small Louisiana town into the national spotlight and sparked a massive civil rights demonstration. State District Judge Tom Yeager then sentenced the five, standing quietly surrounded by their lawyers, to seven days unsupervised probation and fined $500. It was a far less severe end to their cases than seemed possible when the six students ? all of whom are black ? were initially charged with attempted murder in the 2006 attack on Justin Barker, a white classmate. They became known as the "Jena Six," after the central Louisiana town where the beating happened. Jena 6' beating case wraps up with plea deal? By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer ? Fri Jun 26, 2009 "I just thank God that it's all over," said John Jenkins, father of Carwin Jones...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).