Word: massing
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...professionals? "It makes me feel like I have a grip on my world," says Emily Neill, a 39-year-old single mother of two. Neill isn't a techie, per se - "I'll never have a phone that does anything but make calls," says the fashion consultant in Watertown, Mass. - but she stays logged on to Facebook all day at work and then spends an hour or two - or lately three - at night checking in with old acquaintances, swapping photos with close friends and instant-messaging those who fall somewhere in between. "It makes you feel like you're part...
...faces and their Nordic inwardness - seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the one that existed before automobiles and television. Wyeth's popularity coincided with the disappearance of an older U.S., a nation of regions, localities and rural fastnesses that was overwhelmed and homogenized after World War II by the mass market and mass media. Which is why, even at their dryest and gravest, his pictures are inevitably flush with nostalgia...
...October, the Mass. Dept. of Corrections announced that it will start double bunking inmates at Shirley Prison in order to keep up with the massive influx of inmates. Before we think about the implications of such a policy, it is more important to know what politicians are doing to stem that flow. So far, the answer is nothing. They would rather strain the state’s resources to maintain a popular and highly politicized policy that is actually hurting our state. Double bunking is exactly the sort of short term solution that will sustain the problem of mass incarceration...
...safe places: they create more crime than they cure and the risk of victimization by violent or sexual assault is at least times more for people in prison than in normal society. It is despicable that we take away people’s liberty and dignity so readily under mass incarceration. Worse, while under the state’s so-called care, they are placed in toxic, dangerous, and frightening environments, and we are surprised when they commit more crimes after their release. Increasing the number of correctional officers and placing people in solitary confinement is not going to make...
...People who have committed crimes are not the dregs of society to be dispensed with as politicians deem necessary. Policies that are unjust to criminals are still unjust in an absolute sense. Mass incarceration is not working. Correctional facilities themselves are struggling to handle this ludicrous practice of locking up our most disadvantaged citizens. At best, it is impractical and expensive. At worst, as a trip to a prison and a conversation with an inmate will prove, it is inhumane, unjust and unconscionable...