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Folsom's attempts to isolate gang leaders have failed, so when violence flares, authorities have been forced increasingly to use the single blunt tool at their disposal: confinement of all prisoners to their cells. During such "lock-downs," inmates are released only for a ten-minute shower every other day, spending the rest of the time seething in their cells. After each of Folsom's recent lock-downs, inmates have emerged ornery as ever. "All the lock-downs do is buy time," says Prison Chaplain James McGee...
...serve only to escalate the viciousness of American crime. "It animalizes people," says Criminologist Richard Korn of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "They sit in there building fury." Says Charles, the young Bloods gang member: "This place is a pigsty. People come off the lock-downs anxious to kill." Self-serving as that comment may be, a harsh fact remains: more and more cons, both inside the prisons and reunited with fellow gang members on the outside, do just that. --By Dan Goodgame. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Sacramento
Officials were perplexed as to why she entered the enclosure. They said she had been instructed to lock one door, not go inside. "There is no reason for anyone caring for tigers to ever go onto the exhibit area," said Zoo General Curator James Doherty. "As best as I can see, she had a lapse in concentration." While Burke might be able to provide some insight into Silverman's actions, she was said to be too shaken to talk about...
...Vanity Fair. Perhaps the only place where such a story conference could occur is at Soldier of Fortune, the macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine's. Since its founding as a quarterly...
...Tuesday, April 12, 9pm, Vatican City What's a reporter to do when the anointed sources are on maximum lock-down? Keep on knockin'. And, at the same time, hustle for other ways to divine what those 115 men in red who will choose the next Pope are thinking and saying and doing behind their shuttered windows. We talk to aides; we talk to bishops; we talk to people who talk to Cardinals. Beyond the Cardinals' self-imposed press blackout during this week leading up to the conclave, we got a piece of bad news earlier today when a dinner...