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...next day, Drew remained silent throughout the preliminary hearing, even as he listened to the recitation of his and Mitchell's alleged crimes: five counts of capital murder, 10 counts of first-degree battery. Mitch wept and appeared remorseful. But a single night of jail found the boys outwardly changed. Upon waking, Mitchell requested a Bible, a minister and "some Scripture thought," according to Sheriff Dale Haas. Both boys asked for pizza for lunch. The request was denied, and Drew began to cry in his holding cell, begging for his mother. Said the sheriff: "He wants his Mama...
When Vovo Bossongo, an opposition-party member in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was dragged into a Kinshasa jail last January, the authorities skipped the usual beating. Instead, security agents poked the young woman with a 2-ft.-long shock baton whose electric jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls...
While Wurtzel's plaint is heartfelt, it isn't more than that. The book is all shapeless feeling. Wurtzel complains that predatory Joey Buttafuoco, not Amy Fisher, should be in jail. She wishes Hillary Clinton were President. She thinks Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction was misunderstood: the woman was just true to her feelings (never mind that many women sleep with married men but don't start boiling pets...
...hope your boy gets raped in jail and killed." The words, angry and exasperated, from an anonymous caller, burn into the ears of Jackie Golden, grandmother of Andrew Golden. For a moment she is too shaken to speak. "I know people have been killed," she says, trembling from the venom. She knows it is widespread. But, she says, Andrew is still my grandson...
...punish the parents? According to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, 42 states have enacted laws making parents responsible in one form or another for their children's crimes. Of those states, 17 make parents criminally liable, sometimes with the threat of hefty fines and jail time. California's 1988 antigang law is one of the toughest. The state's Parental Responsibility Act makes parents liable for inadequate supervision, with penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas adopted a parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians...