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...release will get training and, if needed, substance-abuse counseling. But other states may be flirting with disaster by cutting re-entry programs even as they let some inmates go early. The state of Washington was having trouble releasing some of its inmates early because they had no place to live. Now the state is helping roughly 700 offenders pay up to $500 per month in rent. At the same time, however, the state has cut funding for more substantive transitional services. (Read "A Brief History of Prison Riots...
...Brighter Future Your article "Joburg Gets It Together" tells South Africans more about the positive developments taking place in Soweto than our own media does [Aug. 24]. For some reason our society constantly and greedily demands to know about what is wrong, while disregarding or belittling everything that is positive. Our homemade prophets of doom shake their heads and try to convince us that we are heading for a failed and shameful 2010 World Cup. It is also true, though, that the new black élite, beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment, have joined the white élite and have...
North America isn't the only place where people buy movie tickets. Just as much money is to be had abroad, and there the big hits were Harry Potter 6 and ... huh?... Ice Age 3! The CGI comedy has earned a woolly-mammoth $614 million in foreign climes, $200 million more than Transformers and nearly five times as much as Up, which is just opening throughout much of Europe. That means you'll see more prehistoric capers and sequels of all kinds, since the international audience is even more conservative than the American. Black ink for the movie business...
...levels in the basement of Old Quincy had begun to decrease by 3:30 p.m., Murphy said. The evacuation remained in place until 5 o’clock, when students were allowed to return to their rooms in Old Quincy...
...levels in the basement of Old Quincy had begun to decrease by 3:30 p.m., Murphy said. The evacuation remained in place until 5 o’clock, when students were allowed to return to their rooms in Old Quincy...