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What we are doing is, quite frankly, stupid. In the U.S., in the year 2000, when we decide that an individual has committed a crime we lock him inside a room, a compound of buildings for some length of time. Though men used to comprise the vast majority of the prison population, women are now the fastest growing group of prisoners.) He will have minimal contact with members of his family and his community. His living environment will be chaotic, overcrowded, noisy, brutal. Typically, he will not be educated--though more than half of all prisoners are functionally illiterate, only...
...book for his girlfriend to read while she was recovering from a car accident. As her run of bad luck would have it, she was later trapped inside her house as it burned down. Recalling the book's advice on "How to Break Down a Door," she kicked the lock and made like Houdini. True story or MacGyver fantasy? You just never know...
...killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from JonBenet's resting place. For three days, they mounted round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners...
...Navy warship, it was unfortunate that no mention was made of how Commander Kathleen McGrath developed the self-esteem, confidence and leadership skills to be selected for the position in the male-dominated military. It would have been more enlightening than the subject of toilet modifications. PATRICIA KUBUS LOCK Nicholson...
...protest a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Ramsey was ready. Police using pepper spray arrested 630 protesters Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire marshals declared the warehouse where the demonstrators had set up their command post a fire hazard and shut it down...