Word: jails
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...bigger problem is the tanking economy. Lose a job, and paying the mortgage becomes more of an issue. Since the house is worth less than you owe on it, you can pretty much forget about refinancing or selling, the old get-out-of-jail-free cards when you could no longer make your payments. So maybe we should be most worried about the 50% of homes that are underwater in the Detroit area. Or - odd as it may sound - Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, at 10%, is second only to Michigan, and where 15.7% of mortgage holders are underwater...
...Politics yesterday. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, spoke on the need to reform health care systems to better address the need for affordable addiction and mental health treatment. The event began with an introduction by Minnesota Congressman Jim Ramstad, who talked about finding himself in a Sioux Falls jail in 1981 before finally seeking treatment for his addiction. According to Ramstad, over 26 million people currently suffer from addictions—only 16 million of whom have health insurance. But even those with insurance usually can not get coverage for mental health. Ramstad called mental health provisions...
It’s too bad that “Madea Goes to Jail”—Tyler Perry’s latest film adaptation of one of his countless plays—is not principally concerned with Madea, nor with her going to jail. After playing the quick-witted, ill-tempered, church-resistant elderly woman in two other films (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”), Tyler Perry has here subordinated the storyline of his most interesting alter...
...will face as it wrestles with how to deal with Gitmo's 245 remaining detainees. The plan is to try the hard-core terrorists in federal courts, but the Bush Administration's authorization of legally questionable interrogation techniques at the prison now gives many detainees a get-out-of-jail card. "Anytime you try to use criminal courts to prosecute, there's a good chance they're going to be acquitted," says Padmanabhan...
...iron grip China maintains on Tibetan areas of the country that even a yak herdsman knows to be wary of video surveillance. In a sheltered corner of the monastery's walls, Dorje enumerated the wrongs visited on ordinary Tibetans by the Chinese authorities: beatings, arbitrary arrests and lengthy jail sentences, extortion, forced attendance at public vilifications of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The list went on, culminating in attempts to make Tibetans celebrate the Lunar New Year, something Dorje and others told me they had refused to do out of respect for Tibetans killed in Lhasa last March...