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...some experienced offenders, the prospect of jail can make a real difference in their decisions about what crimes they are willing to commit. L.A.'s Garcetti recalls the calculating questions of a teen who raised his hand when the district attorney appeared at a detention center last April. "If I kill someone," the kid asked, "can I be executed...
Seven states will shell out a combined half a billion dollars this year to jail illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes. The surprisingly high tally of costs for those states with the largest number of illegals comes from a new Federal Government report, written in response to a suit to force the feds to pick up more of the tab. The swamped seven: Texas, California, Arizona, Florida, New York, Illinois and New Jersey...
...problem is of frightening magnitude: 2,000 teenagers commit suicide each year, and for every suicide, there are up to 350 failed attempts. "In an age where the cult of youth is so valued, emulated and pursued," notes psychiatrist Andrew Slaby, "we have been unable to respond to our children and teens when they are in the greatest pain." Slaby's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves (Norton; 208 pages; $23), written with Lilli Frank Garfinkel, is a canny and compassionate attempt to make, and help others to make, such a response...
Slaby does have one culprit: guns. Fifty-five percent of the teenage boys who commit suicide do so with a firearm. Citing studies whose findings should be painfully obvious, Slaby concludes, "There is increasing evidence those who do not have access to a gun are not as likely to kill themselves...
...Troche, offers a radical take on lesbians: they're human beings. Imagine! They can be funny and horny. They look for love and, when they're not looking, fall in it. Max, "a carefree Sappho lesbo," hooks up with gawky Ely (V.S. Brodie), who finds it hard to commit to anything, even a haircut. And just like real people -- oh, yes -- lesbians can be long-winded, tortured and smug...