Academic

"The Case for Treating Drug Addicts in Prison"
The title of this post is the headline of this interesting new piece in Newsweek. Here is an excerpt: Of the 2.3 million inmates in the U.S., more than half have a history of substance abuse and addiction...

"How The Recession Hurts Private Prisons"
The title of this post is the headline of this Newsweek feature. Here is how the interesting piece gets started: Baldwin, Mich., (population 1,107), will soon have more prison beds than full-time residents...

Interesting account of "Five myths about the death penalty"
NYU Professor David Garland has this intriguing piece in today's Washington Post under the headline "Five myths about the death penalty." Here is how the Post's editors set up the piece and the five myths set out by Garland: The...

A head that causes head-scratching
A headline in the Sunday (March 28, 2010) Parade stopped me this morning. At first, a reader might think that the magazine's editors made the dreaded apostrophe-plural mistake. In fact, I think the editors are saying "Teenager is in love...

"Pot and the GOP: Is the party of Just Say No morphing into the party of Just Say Grow"
The title of this post is the headline of this notable and effective new piece in Newsweek. Here are excerpts: You?d expect aging flower children to fight for the right to get high...

"Dying in Vein: Is subjecting an inmate to a failed execution cruel and unusual punishment"
The title of this post is the headline of this new piece appearing on-line at Newsweek. Here is how it begins: Can a vein save a convicted killer? It the case of Romell Broom ? it might...

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...