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...this brisk evening, the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex is moonlighting as a bed-and-breakfast, offering citizens a one-time-only opportunity to experience punishment without crime. Price: $55 for adults, $30 for children. So just who came up with this screwy idea? Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who says with a missionary's zeal that the public needs to "see what my people are going through." His people are the 665 officers and civilians who will staff the $135 million facility when it opens to real criminals this week. But some of the sheriff's visitors have another goal...
This isn't the first time safety concerns have been raised about the Utah plant, which stands roughly 50 miles from Salt Lake City. "There's a long-standing argument between the government and people who work in the Tooele facility over how safe it is," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "And it's plain to everyone that although the amounts of sarin [a nerve gas] and other chemicals disgorged into the air are very low, they're not zero." The Army responded to Harris's claims with a promise of a complete investigation and a statement insisting they...
...parent of two students at Columbine High. Do you think that looking at Harris and Klebold on the cover of your magazine holding the automatic weapons that killed or physically or mentally maimed our children will give us a sense of resolution? It's more like pouring salt on the wounds. To release your story just before Christmas--one that for many parents and siblings will be the most difficult of their lives--shows a shocking lack of compassion. I do think the story needs to be told, but your timing was callous. The picture--never. JOANNE ABEL Littleton, Colo...
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