Friday, August 3, 2007

News: Tossing kids out with the bath water

The Worcester Telegram quotes Ron Madnick, of the ACLU of Massachusetts Worcester County Chapter, in its story about a summer basketball league's expulsion of two entire teams over the alleged gang connections of a few members.

Madnick told the Telegram that the decision went against one of the “fundamental principles of our system of justice — you are responsible for your own actions, not the actions of individuals in the group you belong to."

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