http://b.rox.com/2005/06/15/lockup/ Life in the Flood Zone Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://b.rox.com/2005/06/15/lockup/#comment-9524 dan burton Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:20:40 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2005/06/15/lockup/#comment-9524 I just finished reading "Desire St, A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans" by Jed Horne (editor of the Times-Picayune). Read it and enter a world where every level of city and state government is critically corrupt. It's a damn good book. I wonder what Harry Connick must think about it? I just finished reading “Desire St, A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans” by Jed Horne (editor of the Times-Picayune). Read it and enter a world where every level of city and state government is critically corrupt. It’s a damn good book. I wonder what Harry Connick must think about it?

]]> http://b.rox.com/2005/06/15/lockup/#comment-9518 Mark Gstohl Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:04:14 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2005/06/15/lockup/#comment-9518 United Way President Gary Ostroske often says that for every kid that fails to move on to the second grade the government builds a jail cell. I don't know if this is true, but I do think that our poor educational system has something to do with the fact that we jail a lot of folks. United Way President Gary Ostroske often says that for every kid that fails to move on to the second grade the government builds a jail cell. I don’t know if this is true, but I do think that our poor educational system has something to do with the fact that we jail a lot of folks.

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