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...Masdar City will really be. The settlement is being built miles outside Abu Dhabi, contributing to the energy-intensive sprawl growing throughout the emirate. And while Masdar City promises to use the greenest technologies on the market, that won't make it livable. "It looks a bit like a prison to me," says Steffen Lehmann, an urban-design professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia who spoke at WFES. "It's going to be a 1% token-green enclave, while the rest of [Abu Dhabi] goes about business as usual...
...California Decrowding The Prisons A federal panel has tentatively ruled that California's prison population--about 153,000 inmates spread over 33 facilities--must be reduced by as many as 55,000 within three years. The decision is the culmination of a long-running attempt to remedy the state prison system's problems with overcrowding and poor medical care...
July 2005 Federal Judge Thelton Henderson takes control of the state's prison health-care system, placing it under the control of a federal receiver or health-care czar...
...Over the past decade, at least 94 prisoners have undergone the treatment in the Czech Republic, the only country in Europe that continues to surgically castrate sex offenders. The Czech government insists the procedure is a medical issue, one that permanently reduces testosterone levels to lower an offender's sexual urges. And officials say it is performed only at the request of the prisoners themselves. (See pictures of prison life...
...Tsvangirai agreed in principle to form a unity government last September, they haggled over the details for close to six months. As Tsvangirai himself reminded the crowd, hundreds of MDC supporters remain in detention. "It hurts that as we celebrate here today, there are some who are in prison," he said. Those supporters would be freed, he said, adding that the "culture of impunity" and the "looting of state resources because you are a big shot" were over...