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March 29, 2001
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The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
ifeminists
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Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
BusinessWeek
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Keeping Cell Phones Out of Jail Cells As prisons try to block unauthorized cell phone use, companies are developing systems that cost over $1 million to address the problem. |
AskMen.com
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Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
Entrepreneur
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On the Fence Entrepreneurs weigh in on the immigration debate. |
Wired
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The Great Southwest Salt Saga How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. |
Mother Jones
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Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
BusinessWeek
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Bjerga & McFerron |
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Delicious Living
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Organics: A better way to feed our changing world? Organic agriculture not only produces healthy products, but is environmentally and socially friendly. |
National Defense
December 2009
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National Guard Sends Agriculture Teams to Afghanistan National Guard members with agriculture and civil engineering degrees, or with practical skills are setting up demonstration farms, and helping Afghans go from subsistence farming to where they can earn extra money for their crops. |
Reason
May 2006 |
Letters America's Criminal Immigration Policy... An Echo Chamber of His Own... |
IEEE Spectrum
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Recycling Behind Bars U.S. prison practices blacken computer and television recycling efforts. |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
BusinessWeek
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Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch. |
The Motley Fool
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Compounding Magic Only Goes So Far Some concrete examples of how compounding of returns causes your money to grow, and a look at what rate of return is reasonably achievable. |
Reason
August 2003
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Salon.com
May 8, 2002
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Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
IDB America
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Art with a machete Farmers, in the community of El Arbolito in Guatemala's northern department of Peten, sculpt ornamental plants to please the European market. |
Salon.com
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Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
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Jails To Charge For Room & Board Several states and some cities have gone to great lengths to squeeze money from inmates. |
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What Good Are Biofuels? Crops that double as energy sources are cheap, abundant, and homegrown. Yet as farmers rush to transform food crops into fuel, some environmentalists have begun to fret. |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mafioso: Worst Prisons In America If you ever have to serve time, pray you don't have to do it in one of these, the worst prisons in America. |
IDB America
July 2005
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On the front lines of change Convincing Guatemalan farmers to adopt new methods can be a challenge even under normal circumstances. |
Science News
September 14, 2002
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Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops. |
Fast Company
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Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons As drones become more ubiquitous, prisons are struggling with the question of how to protect against contraband deliveries from the skies. |
Reason
March 2009
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Salon.com
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National Gardening
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Second Harvest July is the perfect month to start thinking about the fall garden. Many of the vegetables you've enjoyed from the garden this spring and early summer can be grown and harvested this fall as well. |
