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Designed for a population of 1,782, Folsom today struggles to contain 3,036 maximum-security convicts, the meanest of the mean in violent crime. On the main blocks, two inmates are jammed into each of the 6-ft. by 8 ½ -ft. cells. Less than half work or attend classes. The others mainly watch daytime television and frequently turn their idle nothing-to-lose ferocity against one another. Homosexual rape has long been commonplace, and stabbings are now epidemic, averaging 19 a month, in contrast to about nine a month in 1984. Assailants wield sharpened combs and toothbrushes, melted...
...response from Managua to last week's rebel probes was to divert attention from the clashes around Esteli with the familiar warnings of an impending U.S. invasion. The Nicaraguan Defense Ministry placed the armed forces on maximum alert. But sources close to the government said that while officials were "worried" about the escalation of rebel activity in the northern part of the country, the contras don't yet "pose a real threat to toppling the government, even if they are very efficient at creating chaos...
After a four-day trial without a jury, Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. needed just 15 minutes to pronounce Arthur Walker, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, guilty of espionage. He faces a maximum sentence of three life terms and a fine of $40,000. The defense called no witnesses. Meek, stooped and without his usual toupee, Walker looked more like an accountant than a spy. His lawyers tried to portray him as an innocent dupe of his aggressive younger brother. One of them told reporters, "He may have been...
...Tuesday, April 12, 9pm, Vatican City What's a reporter to do when the anointed sources are on maximum lock-down? Keep on knockin'. And, at the same time, hustle for other ways to divine what those 115 men in red who will choose the next Pope are thinking and saying and doing behind their shuttered windows. We talk to aides; we talk to bishops; we talk to people who talk to Cardinals. Beyond the Cardinals' self-imposed press blackout during this week leading up to the conclave, we got a piece of bad news earlier today when a dinner...
...RIAA set a maximum of 25 students at each school for this round of lawsuits, spokeswoman Jenni R. Engebretsen said, but only 11 at Harvard were targeted...