Word: jails
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...think people ought to go to jail for using it. It's too good a medicine. I guess if it were harder to find on the illegal market, there would be more people out there voting to make it legal. But you can grow a little here or have a little there from a friend, and the next thing you know, you don't care whether it's legal...
...necessary, but the bohemian atmosphere - there are regular art exhibitions as well as weekly jam sessions with local musicians - softens the overall experience, while a city-center location will prove irresistible to guests planning a breakout. Things are even grittier at Latvia's Karosta Prison, karostascietums.lv - a former jail near the Baltic Sea resort of Liepaya. Originally built as a military hospital in 1900, it began housing prisoners during the early days of the Russian Revolution and continued to do so throughout the Nazi occupation, during the Soviet era and right up until 1997, when Latvian authorities released the last...
Later she told jail doctors that nothing could mute the patter that said she was a lousy mother. The death of her children, she said, was her punishment, not theirs. It was, she explained, a mother's final act of mercy. Did not the Bible say it would be better for a person to be flung into the sea with a stone tied to his neck than cause little ones to stumble? And she had failed her children. Only her execution would rescue her from the evil inside her--a state-sanctioned exorcism in which George W. Bush, the former...
...like a fog being lifted," she tells Rusty when he visits her on Wednesdays and Fridays. Their discussions are blunt but sincere. "If I am going to have an ongoing relationship with her," Rusty says, "I need her to be open." Andrea calls him once a week from jail. They talk while Rusty cradles the cordless phone and paces the empty house. Before Christmas, Andrea asked him to play her snippets of home videos archived in the electronic shrine that he has created at www.yateskids.org Only recently had she been allowed to see photos of her children. Rusty made sure...
...Going to jail really changed my mind about a lot of the people who end up doing time in America. The way we were all brought up, you drive by a jail with your family and your mom says, "That's where all the bad people are." So you have this very specific idea of who's in there. After being locked up, I realized we make it very difficult for a lot of these people to live a life of productivity after they make one mistake. There are definitely people who should be locked up, but we stack...