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U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive health care problems.

The cash-strapped state already plans to release ailing and short-term inmates for budget issues. That would clear up to 37,000 beds over two years, estimated California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate.

But he said an order from federal judges would set a "dangerous precedent" and argued at a news conference that California had cleaned up prisons and hired medical professionals to fill chronic gaps that had left prisoners without adequate physical or mental care.

The federal three-judge panel in February made a tentative ruling pointing toward release. On Tuesday the judges ordered the state in 45 days to prepare a plan to cut overcrowding to 137.5 percent of capacity.

That would amount to a cut of 40,591 inmates in its 33 prisons, it said. But officials intend to appeal a release order, which would follow Tuesday's order for a plan.
(WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN AMERICA, IF YOU WANT TO GET SICK,DIE,LIVE,EAT, AND YES EVEN STAY IN PRISON YOU NEED TO HAVE MONEY MONEY MONEY)

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NEW YORK On Tuesday (August 4), a Manhattan judge signed an order that will see former Bad Boy recording artist and onetime Sean "Diddy" Combs protégé Jamal "Shyne" Barrow receive two-and-a-half years of post-release supervision stemming from his 2001 conviction and sentencing in the infamous Club New York case.

An attorney for Shyne — born Jamal Barrow but now going by Moses Levi after converting to Judaism while in prison — said that the order marked one of the last remaining hurdles in the way of his client's release from prison in October.

"He's about 90 percent of the way home now," attorney Oscar Michelin told MTV News following the hearing.

The district attorney's office had recommended Shyne receive the maximum amount of five years of post-release supervision (essentially probation), due to the violent nature of his crime. In June of 2001, Shyne was sentenced to 10 years in prison — the most serious charge he was found guilty of was first-degree assault, after a patron in the club was shot in the face following a melee that started between a group of clubgoers and Diddy's entourage, which included his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and Shyne. Shyne brandished a gun and fired shots into the air to break up the argument.

In court, Michelin presented a memo he prepared in Shyne's defense, which was a combination of previous law examples that were similar to his client's case, talk of the rapper's good behavior and testimony from scholars and business executives who support the Brooklyn native's release.

"I'm grateful," a calm Shyne told the judge.

The rapper was hoping to be re-sentenced as a way to avoid post-release supervision, telling the judge that the supervision equates to "extra jail time." It was a strategy he and his lawyer proposed but the judge quickly dismissed, citing a recent court of appeals decision that changed the nature of assigned post-release supervision in New York. As a result of the ruling, a number of previous dependents in cases, including Shyne, have been issued extra supervision following their jail sentences. The judge acknowledged the rules were not in effect when Shyne was initially sentenced, but cases all over the state are now being reexamined as a result of the ruling.

In April, Shyne appeared in court for a parole hearing, hoping to be released early after serving eight years in prison — but the rapper was denied any lenience. Now the rapper has a mandatory release scheduled for October 6 of this year. The date will mark eight years and seven months served; he began his sentence in April of 2001, when he was 22 years old.

Shyne will serve the rest of his sentence at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York.
(mtvnews.com)
(HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEAVE WITH NOBODY KNOWING AND THEN TELL THE WORLD HE WAS HOME AFTER HE GOT STRAIGHT. BUT IM GLAD SON IS ALMOST OUT THOUGH

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ON SOME BIG CAT DIARY SHIT

"YOU SHOULD LIE TO THE COPS AND TELL THE TRUTH IN THE BOOTH" SEAN PRICE

The military wants soldiers who can withstand anything - even the worst and most debilitating wartime injuries. Now Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research team, is trying to make traumatic injuries more like minor scrapes, patched up to be good as new. Or better.

Darpa’s been working on superhuman soldiers for years. They’ve toyed with cellular mitochondria and pondered putting soldiers on the Atkins diet. In 2006, Darpa launched an ambitious Restorative Injury Repair program, that aims to “fully repair” body parts damaged by traumatic injury.

Earlier this year, researchers funded by that program generated new human muscle that could replace damaged tissue. Now Darpa’s asking for a device that can use adult stem cells for a regenerative free-for-all, pumping out whatever needed to repair injured body parts, including nerves, bone and skin. Already, research has proven that adult stem cells can act the same way embryonic ones do - differentiating into the highly-specified cells that form complex body parts.

According to Darpa’s solicitation, 85 percent of recent wartime injuries involved damage to the extremities and facial regions. That often means multiple surgeries, rehab and permanent disability for vets. They’re hoping to eliminate the injuries, and their long-term consequences, with a system that can reproduce in vitro tissues with the same structural and mechanical properties of the real stuff. And maybe make better versions: Darpa wants implanted results that will “replace, restore or improve tissue/organ function.”

Phase II of the project will see animal testing of the most promising systems. And Darpa foresees eventual use by military and civilian populations. Sounds like fodder for Hollywood, but broken bones and third-degree burns might one day be treated with an easy drop-in at the body part bank.
(AS WITH ALL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT WERE THOUGHT TO BE A GOOD THING WHEN CREATED. WHAT ABILITIES WILL THESE "SUPER-POWERS" GIVE TO THOSE WITH NOT SUCH GOOD INTENTIONS.)

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NIKE HUARACHE WAS THE SHIT EVEN THOUGH THEY GOT NEW VERSIONS THEM SHITS CANT TOUCH THE CLASSICS.(WORD TO ME)

DOPE SHIT FROM YOUNG BUCK. SOMEBODY MIGHT NEED TO GIVE THIS DUDE ANOTHER SHOT

Los Angeles - Universal Music Group's sales and marketing division on Thursday announced that it has partnered with independent digital music distributor TuneCore, which will now provide and host distribution portals for Universal labels and artists. Launched in 2006, TuneCore offers artists a cheap way to distribute their music and other content to iTunes, eMusic and other digital retailers.

Universal will also provide TuneCore's customers with artist services including licensing opportunities and professional audio mastering, adding that, "as an artist's career grows, they may benefit from having a number of artist-discovery, marketing
and upstreaming opportunities within the UMGD system."

Finally, TuneCore investor and partner Guitar Center will sell Universal physical product, including select TuneCore artist titles, at its 200 retail store locations.

(UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP IS USING A COMPANY TO DISTRIBUTE THEIR MUSIC THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO ME AND YOU FOR YEARS NOW. THE TIDE IS SHIFTING AND THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC IS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE POWER IN THIS INDUSTRY BELONGS TO THOSE WITH THE CREATIVE MIND STATES.)