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...UNEASY PEACE: The tit-for-tat killings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. seemed to exhaust the rivalry. For parole violations, Knight eventually went to jail; Death Row foundered, and West Coast rap with it. Atlanta and St. Louis, Mo., became hip-hop power centers, cooling coastal tensions...
...Eric Cadora and Charles Swartz, who run the Justice Mapping Center, if you can pinpoint the few-block area that produces the most criminals, you can create programs that specifically target the problems of the people who live there and help them avoid the behaviors that land them in jail. That, in return, could save millions of dollars. New York State spends $42,000 an inmate a year. Multiply that by the number of prisoners who grew up on the same streets in parts of Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and you get what Cadora calls "million-dollar blocks" because...
...course, teens continued to assault people and steal cars. But instead of going to the state-run jail, those caught and convicted had to make various community-building reparations like apologizing to the victim, paying restitution and participating in service projects or apprenticeships. In seven years the county's youth-incarceration rate dropped 25%, and the number of teens who received citations or were arrested for crimes went down 28%. According to Bob La Combe, who runs the county's juvenile system, young people are "making the connection between the crime they committed and the harm to the community...
...Hercules spawned perhaps a hundred peplum epics, so called for the short skirts the guys wore. All were inspired by Greek and Roman mythology; Reeves, a former Mr. America, Mr. World and Mr. Universe whose previous claim to fame had been a costarring role in Ed Wood's Jail Bait, went on to star in a Hercules sequel, then as Aeneas and Romulus. After him came other musclemen: Reg Park in Hercules Conquers Atlantis, Ed Fury in Ursus, Son of Hercules, Mark Forest in Mole Men vs. the Son of Hercules. Well-tended flesh was as important to these movies...
...business is “probably all going to be sold, maybe at an auction or going-out-of-business sale,” Silverman said. “For his house, there may be an auction...he can’t support himself while in jail, and he has two children.” James Poulos, a family friend who had known Purdy for 30 years, had come to the courthouse in the hopes of supporting Purdy yesterday. “I like him, he’s a good man... It was a shock to hear about...