Word: wind
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...locks really improve safety, I don't mind that students find them inconvenient, but if students dislike them so much that we wind up in a perpetual battle over maintenance issues, and safety isn't improved anyway because students disable the locks, then I am not sure they are worth it," he wrote in an e-mail message...
Much of the increase in the rate of female incarceration is a direct result of harsh mandatory-sentencing laws that impose minimum jail times for all drug offenses. Many of these drug offenders are women, frequently poor African Americans and Hispanics, who wind up in prisons built for hard-core male felons, not pregnant and parenting women. "These kids are innocent victims of their parents' misconduct," says David Steinhart, co-author of the 1993 book Why Punish the Children...
...getting any help," says Sarah Ambrosini, 29, who lives there with her two sons, ages four months and 16 months. The program is expensive, averaging $40,000 a year per inmate, compared with $25,000 in a regular prison. But since families stay together, fewer kids wind up in foster care. Also, follow-up studies show inmates in the program have a lower recidivism rate. Says Sterling O'Ran, an administrator for California's Department of Corrections: "We've been able to get them hooked on their kids instead of drugs." Many prison moms would like that same opportunity...
...Square was largely empty, with relatively few costumed figures venturing out into the wind and rain...
...wind also worked against Yale during the day. After its first touchdown, Yale was unable to convert an extra point thanks to the gusting wind. But three downs later the wind set up an Elis touchdown when the Lions could only manage a 14-yard punt...