Word: bedding
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There are 88 more men waiting to be made special. They've got their own building with their own lawyers' meeting room, which has a mural of an eagle and another of Scooby-Doo. Everyone spends all day on his bed, silent, reading the Bible or playing chess against a neighbor he can't see except for the hand that reaches through the bars into the hall to move pieces. Jenny Jones is on the TV, and she is looking good, but no one looks. Instead the inmates study the Bible, which they know better than some preachers...
...extract itself from its history by using it. The 1872 Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater is being restored. And the Riverlore mansion, once owned by a riverboat captain, is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast. There's a plan to rent out the dead downtown stores for a $1 a year. And Cairo has even secured a $1.5 million grant to give Main Street its original cobblestone beauty, with streetlights for evening strolling. No one is strolling yet. History has taught Cairo...
There's the, uh, climactic scene in which a sex-starved teenage boy is finally taken to bed...
With hindsight, the head of Louisiana's prisons questions whether the state gave Wackenhut Corrections enough money to run a professional operation. Louisiana paid the company a per diem of $70 for each juvenile at the 276-bed facility. "We paid them approximately the same per diem that our own facilities cost," says corrections secretary Richard Stalder. "But they had to recover not only their operating but their capital cost. Seventy dollars a day is awfully close." Juveniles are twice as expensive as adults because they require more rehabilitative and educational programs...
...officers watch from a safe distance. He rises suddenly, all 6 ft. and 275 lbs. of him, hulking now over his captors. His psychotropics have long since worn off because he stopped taking them, and the police want to scoop him up and help him find rest in a bed finally ready for him at the state mental hospital. Instead, Big Earl has jammed his foot in the toilet, flooding the concrete floor. To lure him out, they have offered him 7-Up and $100, but he won't budge. He prefers to negotiate by threatening to throw feces...