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...Annexed in the 19th century by the British, who found the archipelago's remoteness ideal for a penal colony, the islands were largely ignored until a newly independent India thought them the perfect location for military muscle building. The Indian Navy still regularly stages beach landings to the bewilderment of sunbathing tourists. Last November, a flotilla of warships, attack helicopters, amphibious craft and even battle tanks occupied a deserted island defended only by cockatoos...
...limit legitimate freedom of expression. Approved despite the fierce objections of conservative legislators, the changes include reduction of sentences for insulting branches of the Turkish state (including the courts and the military). The changes also make it more difficult to prosecute cases under article 312 of the penal code, under which it is an offense to incite hatred based on class, race, religion or region. That catchall clause has been used to pursue anyone expressing pro-Kurdish or politically Islamic views. Excluded from the legal revisions, however, are the implementation of such highly sensitive steps as allowing Kurdish-language broadcasting...
...result is that each day this year, an average of 1,726 men and women--mostly men--will walk out of penal institutions having spent more time behind bars, with less preparation for their return to society and slimmer chances of success there, than those who came before them. The country's once overcrowded prison system has matured into an overwhelmed postrelease supervision system. According to a Justice Department report released last August, there are now 4.6 million Americans on probation or parole--an increase of 44% since 1990. And just as the prison population is racially skewed, so goes...
...crash that cost her 20 head stitches and a no-contest plea to charges of leaving the scene of an accident. As survivor and screw-up, Berry was ideal for the role of Leticia, the broke, hapless widow of an executed man who gets tangled up with a racist penal officer (Billy Bob Thornton) in the moody Monster's Ball...
...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...