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Dumping Ground
Ex-convicts and former prisoners are sent to live in Pierce County into the work-release programs to help them ease back into society. Pierce County has three of these programs- RAP, Progress, and Lincoln Park houses- to help rehabilitate prisoners. But the programs are adding to the already large number of ex-cons living in Pierce County, and the number is increasing.
Tags: jail; inmate; correctional facility; Gerry Horne; pre-release; correction
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Free Rein for Drug Ads?
The Food and Drug Administration has been slow to stop an alarming number of inaccurate drug advertisements, leaving consumers and the doctors that actually prescribe the medicines vulnerable to false or misleading messages. The investigation found ads that minimized prescription drug risks, exaggerated efficacy, made false claims of superiority over competing products, promoted unapproved uses of an approved drug, or promoted use of a drug still in the experimental stage. Such drug ads may contribute to excessive or inappropriate prescribing and to soaring prescription drug spending.
Tags: FDA; Food and Drug Administration; drug advertisements; consumers; FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Freedom of Information Electronic Reading Room; FDA regulatory letters; prescription drug risks; Tamiflu; drugmakers; corrective ads; Department of Health and Human Services; General Accounting Office; Fosamax; Ambien; AARP; Prilosec
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Anatomy of a Prison Murder
This article examines Upstate Correctional Facility, "a place to send the most disruptive inmates so that the rest of the state's prisons could run more smoothly." The prison was a place where inmates from other prisons would go after breaking prison rules elsewhere. "Just as in solitary confinement, the men would stay in their cells for 23 hours a day ... At Upstate, though, officials added a harrowing twist: Each prisoner would be locked in a tiny cell all day with somebody else." After a prisoner was killed by his cell mate, The Village Voice investigates how two highly aggressive prisoners were locked in the same cell.
Tags: prisons; police; prisoners; Upstate Correctional Facility