After spending about an hour locked up alone in a drunk-tank cell block, OPD Sergeant Jeff Thomason arrived to release me, thanks to a call from Mother Jones co-Editor in Chief Monika Bauerlein.
Young love... Ryder and Jake spent most of the hour locked in a bitter battle for Marley's affections, singing an aggressive version of The Clique's "Superman" (which ended in a sucker punch) before Finn helped them recognize their own personal kryptonite and admit their weaknesses.
* The N.R.A. is urging its members to band together in opposition to Measure C, a common-sense proposal that would require gun owners in Sunnyvale, Calif., to report firearm theft to the police within 48 hours, lock up their guns at home and get rid of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
After fourteen days of that horrific withdrawal, in tandem with the 23-hour lock up period, I was ready to crack up at the sheer inhumanity of it.
Most frequently, patients were excluded because of permanent CVC use, which made an 8-hour to 12-hour lock impossible.
In contrast, New York City is going backward: the Department of Correction is carrying out a drastic increase in solitary confinement cells (pretrial detainees held in 23-hour lock-in, with only an hour a day for exercise and showers).
Most parents take a dim view of their children spending hours locked away playing computer games.
Some of these men spend 23 out of 24 hours locked in their cells.
Long hours locked in fetid cells, idle and angry, leads to prisoners committing more crime on release.
New security measures include an emergency text-messaging system for student cellphones and 24-hour locks at residence halls.
Similarly, Adam Lanza spent a huge portion of his waking hours locked in a blacked-out room playing grisly first-person shooter games.
