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Alex Sanchez's Arrest by Tom Hayden

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

THE NATION LAW & JUSTICE Alex Sanchez's Arrest by TOM HAYDEN June 29, 2009 As a state legislator Hayden was a leading proponent of gang peace efforts, including Homies Unidos, and testified for asylum in the Alex Sanchez case. The indictment of Alex Sanchez, a revered gangbanger-turned-peacemaker, raises new doubts about whether the Los Angeles police department has reformed sufficiently to be released from a federal court order. It also brings back strong memories in Los Angeles barrios of the Sleepy Lagoon case during war hysteria in 1942, when the LAPD and media helped railroad three young Mexican men into long murder sentences. The verdicts were later overturned and twelve defendants freed from prison. At the time, the lawyer and future Nation editor Carey McWilliams wrote that the case was a "ceremonial lynching...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).