Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets, could stroll in pairs. Inside, brightly colored dayrooms equipped with televisions, butcher-block tables and cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting clash of steel against steel as hundreds of cell doors slammed shut in unison; gone was the cavernous, clattering mess hall, whose ambiance was an invitation...
...Boston's Suffolk County House of Correction, like the new Suffolk County Jail four miles away, is typical of the new design. Each housing unit is a self-contained triangular pod consisting of 30 to 60 cells on two floors overlooking a common room. Prisoners are separated into units according to their conduct rather than the seriousness of their crimes. Good behavior is rewarded with advancement through a series of increasingly privileged units, the highest of which allows inmates to spend the day in the common room, locked in with only one or two unarmed officers. Meals are shipped from...
...turn aroundsoon." Even if it does, Wonderland will have tocontend with stiff local competition for thegambling dollar. there are dogs at Raynham Parkthoroughbreds at Rockingham Park. there's thelargest state lottery in the country. There's alsoSuffolk Downs just a mile away. In Vader's 1989canine boom/equine bust article Suffolk Downsplayed the Yesterdayland foil: "At Suffolk Downsthe paint is peeling, the windows are splatteredwith pigeon droppings and the pitted asphalt islittered with hot-dog wrappers from the sad littlesnack bars." But Suffolk Downs has undergonerenovations of its own, and is presently enjoyinga mini-resurgence...
Controversy erupted several weeks ago when the parade officials barred the organization from participating. But Suffolk Superior Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 ruled last Wednesday in favor of the group...
...students argued in a packed Suffolk Countycourtroom that they were the victims of "legallycognizable harms" and discrimination. Wittcoffalso maintained that the entire Law School studentbody is harmed by its lack of association withwomen and minority faculty members...