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...incident. That would be the day in early March that Charles Andrew Williams, 15, walked into a school bathroom with his father's .22-cal. revolver and, in a six-minute, 30-shot fusillade, killed two classmates and wounded 13 others. He's now in a juvenile lockup, amid legal wrangling over whether he can be tried as an adult...
...cops-and-robbers tale, but with a film-noir twist. Ovando was railroaded by the police, who had planted a gun to get the conviction. But no one believed Ovando until a dishonest cop, Rafael Perez, talked. Faced with 14 years in prison for stealing cocaine from a police lockup, Perez opted to bargain for a lighter sentence by delivering up his fellow officers. That was five months ago, and Perez has hardly stopped talking since. He has filled 2,000 transcript pages with accounts of cops faking evidence, testifying against innocent people and generally acting like criminals themselves...
...garrulousness is unimpeded by the 23-hr. solitary lockup, which, despite the term, is interrupted by the prisoners' yelling brief messages to one another. They are close enough to be heard. Kaczynski is two doors down from McVeigh, who is next to Yousef. Once, in mid-February, McVeigh the Oklahoma bomber spotted a news brief on the Unabomber and shouted for him to watch. Kaczynski, despite his techno-aversion, tuned in to the 3-min. segment. Kaczynski says he doesn't watch TV unless he feels there is a specific reason for it, according to Friedlander...
Judges and police officers have long shepherded prostitutes in and out of jail with hardly a thought of rehabilitation. "Society considers them throwaway women," says Genesis executive director Gayle McCoy. She and her staff lobby judges to consider their program as an alternative to the lockup. Genesis' track record is starting to win them over. About 70% of enrollees complete the program, and 80% of graduates don't relapse, says McCoy, who bases her estimates on follow-up visits with former clients. Without Genesis House, says Raymond Risley, of the Chicago police department, "these women don't have the tools...
...Faye have four children and live as normal a life as can be expected when sexually abused fugitive children may show up at the breakfast table and members of the Montana militia may call saying they know an attorney who can spring one of Faye's wronged "Sallys" from lockup...