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This spectacular increase has created appalling living conditions for many inmates, who are sleeping in gymnasiums, day rooms, corridors, tents, trailers and other forms of makeshift housing. Until early November, 170 prisoners were sleeping on the floor of a gymnasium at Illinois' Centralia Correctional Center. And Maryland, with one of the country's most grossly crowded systems, is bunking prisoners in basements, recreation areas, temporary buildings and "anywhere they'll fit," according to an official. Says Lawrence Kurlander, chief criminal justice adviser to New York Governor Mario Cuomo: "It is absolutely critical that we provide more space...
...used foul language." One humid May morning last year, Moore's husband Reuben, 52, gave Lucas and his companion Freida ("Becky") Powell, Toole's 15-year-old niece, a lift in Montague County, Texas. He offered the couple room and board in exchange for chores around his makeshift church. Thirteen months later, following Lucas' confessions, the remains of Powell and one of Moore's neighbors, Katherine Pearl Rich, 80, were found...
...medical students set up makeshift treatment centers in the lecture hall and in a library. They helped a score of wounded Grenadians and Cubans. The U.S. wounded were also given first aid. But morphine to relieve pain was running low. An outdoor basketball court was turned into a helicopter pad to lift the wounded to the Guam or to hospital facilities elsewhere. Recalled Student Paula Prezioso of Great Neck, N.Y.: "One minute we'd be under a desk, the next up looking for a Coke, the next treating some Cuban sniper. Then back under a desk...
...floor when the bomb went off. He blacked out; when he revived, he found himself pinned under a jumble of concrete. After his cries for help went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however, his dog tags were found in the wreckage. He was declared dead, and his relatives were notified. Balcolm did not learn about the mix-up until he called his brother the next day. Said Balcolm: "My mother thought a miracle had occurred...
...unchosen began last Saturday, when the first 15 bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. As weeping family members stood by the coffins in a cavernous aircraft hangar, General Kelley spoke a few words of praise. Then the familiar strain of the Marine hymn filled the makeshift chapel...