Word: penal
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...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...Never an introspective man, the solitude of imprisonment wears on Erap even more than most inmates. None awaiting trial in the Philippine penal system has soared as high as this prisoner; so none can know how it feels to fall this far. Like many who are incarcerated, he has turned to religion, pop psychology, any spiritual balm for his depleted soul. He keeps a small shrine of candles and statues of St. Philomena and Christ and a sloppy pile of self-help books such as Your Personal Encourager: Biblical help for dealing with difficult times. He tries to look convincing...
...ceremony, the foundation stone vanishes. Nearby townspeople report seeing police remove it along with the brick base in the night. The next day Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhan confirms his men's involvement, claiming the mourners were trespassing on state-owned land under Section 447 of the Kashmir penal code. "Obviously they cannot erect such a thing on government land," he says. The summit is over and forgotten; the mourning in Kashmir?whatever sort is allowed?continues...
...Piskinsut is a member of the ruling Democratic Left Party and, until October 2000, was the head of the parliamentary Human Rights Commission. During her two-year tenure, Piskinsut vigorously investigated a wide range of issues, from press freedom to the penal detention system, both topics hindering the country's efforts to join the E.U. Full Story...
...least since 1996, and for many years before that in postal mail. The financial crimes division of the U.S. Secret Service says it receives upwards of 100 complaints a day about the Nigerian scheme-commonly known as the 4-1-9 scam, after the section in the Nigerian penal code that deals with financial crimes...