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where would I find how many women were sentenced to prison in New York State (annually) before 1887?

Within the past decade and a half, California had a governor who had publicly stated that he would NOT release from prison anyone who had been sentenced for murder/manslaughter/killing. As a result, several women imprisoned for defending themselves against their abusers were denied release. Which California governor was it? Where would I find documentation (news article, campaign speech, etc) of his statement?

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I am looking for a certain article about youth subculture in nazi Germany. I have stumbled across this site while looking for it as somebody had already requested it here.

This is it:
Beck, Earl. "The Anti-Nazi 'Swing Youth,' 1942-45." Journal of Popular Culture 19, no. 3 (1985): 45-53

My university library does offer on-line access to this publication, but I can't seem to be able to get my proquest password to work. I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me the article.

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Where would I find statistics for the state and federal prison populations (both total and broken down by gender)for 1970, 1971, 1972 or 1973? I checked the Bureau of Justice Statistics site, but its reports only go back to 1977.

In 1990, Ohio governor Celeste granted clemency to 28 women who had been convicted and incarcerated for killing their abusers. As of 1996, this was the largest number of women granted clemency at one time. Where would I look to verify whether this is still the case or if other mass clemencies (for women) have occurred since then?

Several articles about legal cases and the changes in laws regarding domestic violence state that less than a century ago, American law (based on English common law) specified that a man was permitted to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Where would I find this law and when was this law officially changed?

I am looking for information on freedom of expression projects in developing countries. I want to get a sense of what different regions are doing, issues they face, who is doing the organizing. I am also interested in any FoE movements involving the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and what is going on in Iran and Pakistan.

Thank you.

I am experiencing severe pain in my neck, going up the back of my head.

i am looking for sources that describe indigenous liberation struggles - particularly something that talks about the contrasts/differences between indigenous ideology (more rooted in spirituality, connection with the non-human natural world) and more socialist/nationalist ideologies. any ideas of who has written on this? where to look?

In reviewing the life of Anne Summers, one of the members of Women's Liberation in Sydney, Australia, journalist Anna Reynolds states that Elsie (which Summers helped establish from a formerly-abandoned house in 1974) was the first battered women's shelter in Australia.

In 1974, members of the Women's Liberation Movement in Melbourne established the Halfway House, a shelter for battered women and their children.

How can I verify whether Elsie was indeed Australia's first battered women's shelter or whether Halfway House (or another shelter) was already in existence by the time Summers and her fellow Women Libbers opened Elsie?