We're in lockup now, through December, and though we've had close to 50 exits, they've mostly been M&A.
This article assesses the effects of one jurisdiction's attempt to control its lockup population through creation of a separate processing center designed to expedite initial processing of individuals charged with misdemeanors and minor felonies.
Then, one day, a man with a cart of books wound his way through the lockup tiers, shouting "Library call!" Woods wasn't interested at first, but his boredom won out: he decided to borrow "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Sicilian," a novel by Mario Puzo, the author of "The Godfather".
"My Prison, My Home" is, primarily, an account of her annus horribilis, from the initial staged "robbery" when she was on her way to Tehran airport on December 30, 2006, that left her conveniently without a passport and unable to leave the country, through her lockup and eventual liberation almost eight months later.
Halfway through the budget lockup, a video of Andrews boasting of the budget's merits was played to journalists, complete with soaring music in the background.
The team warned about methods of sneaking information out, such as by hidden transmitters, or bypassing the black boxes and master switches that keep the lockup room under electronic quarantine through other means, like wireless Internet.
She interviewed the 36 participating prisoners (called "the dhamma brothers" after the Dhamma, or dharma, the term for the collective teachings of the Buddha) for hours, discussing their childhoods, their crimes, their struggles to get through each day in lockup and the Sisyphean challenge of trying personal transformation inside an often-hopeless prison culture.
This vast structural change is why the global economy has been so vibrant the past decade, shrugging off the collapse in tech valuations in 2001 to 2002 and the 9/11 terror attacks, facilitating the infrastructure and natural resource boom and now blowing through the recent financial lockup.
Earlier, the sheriff who oversees the lockup said the escapees could not have sawed through the thick metal that they did with the sort of tools they could have crafted themselves.
The trio escaped from the Santa Ana lockup sometime after 5 a.m last Friday, cutting through four layers of steel, metal and rebar as they moved through the jail's plumbing tunnels and an air duct.
