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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...difference between this and my last prison, where I was mixed in with violent criminals, is heaven and hell," says Dana Chaison, 51, a convicted drug offender and Roman Catholic. "It's kind of hard to focus on your rehab when you're always watching your back." Bossard Shawn, 32, says he saw his Muslim chaplain so infrequently at his former prison that he felt adrift. Now, under the regular tutelage of local imam Zaid Malik, "I have far more knowledge of Islam and myself," says Shawn. "It's going to make a great amount of difference when I leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When God Is The Warden | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...James H. Bossard and Eleanor S. Boll of the University of Pennsylvania addressed the tradition of debutante balls in their study entitled “Social Forces.” They got to the heart of the matter quickly, writing, “[Parents] present the product of their careful rearing to their approved friends with the unspoken sentiment: ‘This is my daughter, now prepared to enter into, and take her part in, our own social set. She is up for your inspection, and may she be acceptable...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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