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Susan Burton took the bus home from prison six times, with “a buck-fifty left in my pocket,” she said, no identification and her worldly possessions in a box.
In the two decades since her last Greyhound lap, Burton and her Watts-based group, A New Way of Life Reentry Project, have thrown a lifeline to about 1,000 other women to interrupt the incarceration cycle that held her for 20 years; the project operates homes to help women leaving prison get back on their feet. Her memoir, released last year, pushed her to the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement.
But last month she jumped at the chance to go back to the California Institution for Women in Chino, where she spent four of her six prison terms.
“There is no place I’d rather be than here with you,” she said before signingcopies of her bookfor more than 100 inmates. “Your life matters.”
Burton’s memoir, “Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women,” written with author Cari Lynn, tells a story of abuse and violence. She says it’s not an uncommon story among incarcerated women.
Growing up in Boyle Heights projects and South Los Angeles, Burton was molested at age 4 by the boyfriend of an aunt who called her a “dirty little girl” and swore her to secrecy, the book says. She was sexually abused again by a man she met going door to door for the Woodcraft Rangers program for underserved children. He gave her and her family money.
After she was gang-raped at age 14, she gave birth to her daughter. The death of her 5-year-old son, Marque, run over by an off-duty LAPD officer, plunged her into deep depression and substance abuse that led her to prison, she said.
Most of her charges were for drugs, but she never received substance abuse treatment. “The Police Department never even apologized,” she said of her son’s death.
Burton recovered at a treatment center in predominantly white Santa Monica, where she said she found counseling and resources unheard o Updated: February 5, 2025 Total Condemned Inmates: 598 America’s Constitutional Theology: William E. Thro Photo by Jorge Alcala on Unsplash. Constitutional Theology is the intersection of theology with constitutional theory.Constitutional Theology recognizes that the constitutional design will reflect society’s beliefs about the nature of humanity or those who rule. At the same time, it acknowledges that, if the constitutional system is to work, a faith’s interactions with the larger society must echo the constitutional assumptions. This essay explains the idea of Constitutional Theology, briefly defines the contours of America’s Constitutional Theology, and illustrates how recent three Supreme Court decisions, Bostock v. Clayton County,Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, and Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, reflect America’s Constitutional Theology. First, theological assumptions about the nature of humanity or those who rule are relevant to constitutional design.Like the Christian Church in the early fifth century, a society must choose between Pelagius and Augustine. A polity must decide if human nature is good or sinful.If a society, like Pelagius, assumes humanity is inherently good and virtuous, then it will elevate the will of the majority while diminishing “the individual’s right to freedom from the majority.” Because the “the Pelagian ‘freedom of the will’” asserts “human coercion [can] effect a real change in the soul,” then “human effort can change human nature.” Conversely, if a polity, like Augustine,assumes humanity is inherently sinful, then it will constrain, control, and check the majority and, thus, develop “the conceptual ground for political freedom.” If the winners of the last election or the followers of the prevailing faith cannot silence their opponents or punish those of other faiths, then the political losers and minority religions are ensured inalienable rights. “Since the fall, h . Condemned Inmate List
Last Name First Name Age Age at Offense Received Date Sentenced Date Offense Date Trial County ADAMS MARCUS 54 24 12/14/1998 07/30/2003 09/07/1994 Los Angeles ADCOX KEITH 63 20 07/13/1983 07/11/1983 05/27/1982 Tuolumne AGUAYO JOSEPH 82 36 08/14/1996 12/21/2006 04/17/1979 Sacramento AGUILAR JEFFREY 39 22 10/31/2013 10/24/2013 08/16/2008 Ventura AGUIRRE ISAURO 44 32 06/13/2018 06/07/2018 05/22/2013 Los Angeles AGUIRRE JASON 49 28 08/24/2009 08/14/2009 08/12/2003 Orange ALDANA ROMAN 37 19 08/09/2010 07/30/2010 09/09/2006 Riverside ALEXANDER ANDRE 72 28 11/07/1990 04/23/1996 06/04/1980 Los Angeles ALFARO MARIA 53 18 07/20/1992 07/14/1992 06/15/1990 Orange ALVAREZ ALBERTO 41 22 02/10/2010 02/08/2010 01/07/2006 San Mateo ALVAREZ FRANCISCO 57 27 06/29/2000 06/28/2000 11/16/1994 Kern ALVAREZ FRANCISCO 57 29 06/29/2000 06/28/2000 10/23/1996 Kern AMADOR SAMUEL 45 24 02/23/2023 02/15/2023 09/01/2004 San Bernardino AMADOR SAMUEL 45 27 02/23/2023 02/15/2023 01/22/2007 San Bernardino AMADOR SAMUEL 45 38 02/23/2023 02/15/2023 08/01/2018 San Bernardino AMEZCUA OSWALDO 49 24 04/27/2005 04/20/2005 04/11/2000 Los Angeles AMEZCUA OSWALDO 49 25 04/27/2005 04/20/2005 06/19/2000 Los Angeles AMULU IKA 53 37 06/20/2014 06/13/2014 02/02/2009 Orange ANDERSON ERIC 51 29 11/07/2005 10/28/2005 04/14/2003 San Diego ANDERSON JAMES 72 26 12/09/1979 11/30/1979 03/04/1979 Riverside ARGUETA CARLOS 39 18 02/28/2007 02/16/2007 02/15/2004 Los Angeles ARIAS LORENZO 46 21 09/19/2008 09/10/2008 07/09/2000 San Bernardino ARMSTRONG CRAIGEN 43 20 01/26/2005 01/05/2005 09/27/2001 Los Angeles ARMSTRONG CRAIGEN 43 20 01/26/2005 01/05/2005 09/30/2001 Los
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