The Executive Director of Friends of Justice, Alan Bean, has issued this report on the Jena 6 case. It includes his well-researched reconstruction of the events that led to the arrest of the Jena 6, including the noose incident and the school fire, based on extensive interviews and archival research in the town. It also includes recommendations for how the local school system, the District Attorney, the police, and the Justice department should respond to this crisis. This reporton the Jena crisis informed the current CNN story on the show NOW, hosted by Paula Zahn.

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Carole, any file with a DOC extension would not be considered a PDF file (e.g. responding_to_the_crisis_in_jena11.doc). A file with a DOC extension is usually a MS Word document. A file with a PDF extension is an Adobe Acrobat file. Most people prefer not to open Word documents over the Internet. Theoretically, MS Word documents are more likely to have viruses than Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.

Thus, if your link or reference has a DOC extension or you don't know what it is, it's better not to use it.

If you already knew this, I apologize. Just trying to clarify why your earlier link was not a PDF file. Or, PDF files should not be renamed with a DOC extension.

Someone still needs to help the kid in Ga. facing a decade in prison for having oral sex at age 18 with his 15 yearold girlfriend, even though they've changed the law while he has been sitting in there waiting on a new trial. My goodness, you could arrest half the kids at high school dances for this stuff. The Jena 6 have their own troubles, though I have questions about both sides of the issue. Selective outrage bugs me, from the right and the left.