Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...booth with windows made of reinforced glass. When he was first led in, his wrists were handcuffed behind his back. Facing forward, he squatted down so a guard could remove his cuffs through a slot low in the door. This is how things are done at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo., where he has been since last spring and may well remain for the rest of his life...
...turned out, was more than eager to talk about David. And about pretty much everything. The life of a notorious prisoner, he admits, has its advantages. He lives on "Celebrity Row," a group of eight cells protected from the prison's general population. His cell is equipped with a television set (he says he rarely watches) and a light switch, which allows him to stay up at night reading (he has gift subscriptions to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and National Geographic) or writing (answering letters or preparing legal papers). He goes...
Among them, he says, are Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, and Timothy McVeigh. One can only imagine this bombing trio's conversations. Kaczynski says McVeigh (who has recently been transferred to another prison) lent him one of the most interesting books he's read lately, Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab, by John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne. "I mean, I knew from my own experience that they were crooked and incompetent," Kaczynski says, shaking his head and laughing. "But according to this book, they're even worse than what...
With all those good numbers, the only danger now seems to be in getting out of the way of those stampeding to take credit. It's all due to prisons, claimed the GOP, citing their legislation encouraging longer prison sentences and claiming that this keeps criminals off the streets and acts as a considerable deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer...
...though, is that the music is all too polite. Cole's last CD, This Fire, had moments of wild art-rock invention; here, she is content to relax in the groove. Her lyrics, though, can be admirably biting. The album's last song, God Is Watching, condemns "new slavery prison systems/ Holding one in four Black American brothers." If Cole is looking for amens, she'll get one for that line...