Word: locks
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Zimmer admits he does not know how many prisons feature those perks. But he takes the "one prison that has them is one prison too many" point of view. Advocates of prisoners rights, a beleaguered group these days, insist that few lock-up facilities offer much that could be mistaken for the good life. "All prisons are very unpleasant places,'' says Mike Mahoney, executive director of the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based prison watchdog group. They also argue that some of the cost-cutting expectations are based on a misunderstanding about who pays for some inmate comforts. According...
...rules. Parents need to take responsibility for what their children do. They need to realize that the Internet is a community just like any other-and that every community has its share of bad guys. Parents should supervise what their children do and take the necessary steps to lock out things they find objectionable. Technology is the answer, not red tape. The fact that a politician who has outlived his usefulness is writing up bills that have a 1984 ring to them is no reason to blacklist the Internet. JON O'BRIEN Schaumburg, Illinois AOL: JonCOBrien...
...potential solution seems to be gaining support. Last week President Clinton, in a speech to the Conference on the Family and the Media in Nashville, Tennessee, endorsed the V chip (for antiviolence chip), a technology that would allow parents to lock out programs previously identified as having a certain level of violence. A V-chip provision was included in the telecommunications bill passed by the Senate last month. Although the House Commerce Committee initially rejected a V-chip provision, the idea is gaining support in the House, which is about to reconsider the measure...
...Faulty intelligence also led ATF to believe the Branch Davidians kept their guns under lock and key in a central location. In fact, the guns were distributed and readily available. Likewise, ATF agents responsible for surveillance reported the compound had no sentries...
Although the combination lock was still on the number that the professor had left it, $1,000 was missing from the wallet...