Word: baton
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Whitley also proved an ally on the issue of greatest concern to lifers: parole eligibility. Inmates are lobbying Baton Rouge for laws that would grant lifers the opportunity for a supervised release, a practice common in most states. "Others saw us as subversive," says Norris Henderson, who heads the inmate effort. "This warden agrees with the things we're doing." Whitley maintains that his interest is practical. Currently two-thirds of Angola's inmates are serving life terms; in another 15 years, the prison will be filled with people who can never leave. "Put someone in prison for life with...
...sort of thinking that wins friends in the state that has taken the lead in tough sentencing laws and boasts the country's highest incarceration rate. "I don't think if you killed somebody you have the right to be back out in society," says Margot Blalock of the Baton Rouge-based Parents of Murdered Children. Whitley's response is neither indifferent nor apologetic. "I understand how families of victims feel. But I can't run my prison with all those negative feelings toward inmates...
...users to master a new way of typing. The DataHand, developed by Industrial Innovations in Scottsdale, Arizona, abandons conventional keys altogether, replacing them with padded handrests and little finger wells. Each finger can produce five different characters by pressing forward, back, left, right or straight down. Infogrip, Inc., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, goes one step further. It makes a - seven-key "chordic" keypad that works like a court stenographer's machine: the operator presses a different combination of keys to produce each letter...
...candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog-hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana (hint: Paul Newman played him in Blaze). After one election, Long went back on a campaign promise in a big way. When a delegation of betrayed supporters showed up in Baton Rouge to protest, the Governor refused to see them. "What will I tell them?" asked a desperate aide. Long's immortal response: "Tell them I lied...
...Tokyo, Princeton) as the daughter of a publishing executive (Chapin Carpenter, a Life sachem), she played for tips in Washington clubs and made her first album, Hometown Girl, in 1987. The sound was clean and folky; the voice suggested Judy Collins after a long bus trip from Richmond to Baton Rouge. The album got airplay on college stations and public radio, but it wasn't until her record company began promoting her to country radio that Carpenter found a large audience for her pensive postlove songs. She didn't go country; country went...