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Other states are following Pennsylvania's lead in building penal facilities for the aged. But just how much sense does it make for society to keep these mostly nonviolent, broken old men incarcerated? With the U.S. prison population soaring (to a record 1.8 million last year), Florida and California are being forced to release violent felons early because of court orders to reduce prison overcrowding. Should these people go free while harmless wheelchair-bound geriatrics stay locked up? Statistically, the risk of recidivism drops significantly with age. "To keep some of these folks in prison for the length of time...
...Australia, once a penal colony, Valerie Garton, 61, warns that "one must never start family history unless you're willing to accept everything you find." Garton's great-grandfather was transported to Tasmania for stealing sheep. Only a few decades ago, it was considered a taboo Down Under to admit to convict ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially...
...just how do you spot a shady soothsayer? Pump her for lottery numbers and see if she gets them right? Not quite. According to the New York State penal code, a person is guilty of fortunetelling if he or she purports to be "able, by claimed or pretended use of occult powers, to answer questions or give advice on personal matters or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses." Now, that would seem to apply to the horoscope in the back pages of, say, the New York Daily News. There is, however, an exception. Fortunetelling is legal...
...trap of being just a thug-life-living gangsta rapper. He's an actor: he co-starred in Boyz N the Hood, and he's set to start in the action movie Three Kings with George Clooney. And he's a social critic, attacking, in his lyrics, the penal system, politicians and sometimes America in general...
...Coit apparently also managed to have someone on the outside post it for her, since she has no online access in prison. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was notified about the posting, on cyberspace-inmates.com, and it was removed. Coit was one of two Black Widows in the American penal system until Judy Buenoano's execution in a Florida electric chair last March unified the title...