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...instance - account for an astonishing proportion of incarceration costs. "Every year," Stanford's Petersilia told the Los Angeles Times recently, "[the state of California] sends some 70,000 parolees back to prison, about 30,000 from L.A. County alone. Most serve two to three months. Everybody knows this revolving door does not protect the public ... These are the lower-level people who may have been in drug treatment [on the outside], may have found a job. When you send them back to prison, you break those connections...
...reimbursed for traveling expenses but will not be paid. Gates was arrested at his Cambridge home in July for disorderly conduct after a passerby reported to police that two men—actually Gates and his car driver—had forced their way through Gates’ front door. While the charges were dropped soon thereafter, the arrest triggered national debates about race and sparked a media frenzy. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...calling it depoliticized and emphasizing the importance of trust between the solicitor general’s office and the Supreme Court. Though Friday’s panel sought to describe the merits and possibilities of government service, the audience—a packed crowd that trailed out the door and consisted mostly of students—hoped for an inside look at an administration with close personal and ideological ties with the North Yard. But Kagan revealed that she has no daily working relationship with President Obama and instead interacts on a more regular basis with the Attorney General. Still...
...avows that very few U.S. museums are safe from grab-and-run heists like his own at the MFA. “The only way they could prevent something like that from happening is if they had a security system—if you hit a button and the door would lock. Short of that, almost any museum in the country could be taken down in that fashion, as long as the stuff was accessible to the road.” He cites the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as one such vulnerable place...
...called public-insurance option. According to Obama aides, the President urged the Senators to continue reaching out to him over the coming weeks with suggestions and feedback. When the meeting concluded, the Senators returned by bus to the Capitol, leaving the White House through a side door to avoid the reporters waiting outside...