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March 02, 2006
Guess The Century: An Exercise In Institutional Brutality
1. During which century did American prisons shackle female prisoners during childbirth? Why, this one, of course! There is an article in today's NYT about the barbaric practice still practiced in many prisons of shackeling pregnant inmates in labor. I'm supposed to comment insightfully on the article now, this being a blog and all-- but really, what do I need to say? Read the article. It's enough.
There was a very interesting special on incarcerated mothers that was done on Forum this summer. I remember listening to it in the car and driving circles on my way to work so I could finish listening to the program. It covers a range of issues, and if I remember correctly, the first show dealt a lot with pregnancy, mother-infant bonding, and early childhood when the mother is an inmate. Highly recommended.
2. Name the year in which the federal government responded to concerns over mining fatalities by lowering safety standards? This one! The NYT has an article on how the Bush admin. has reduced the fines and/ or not collected the fines for potentialy lethal safety violations in mines.
"The agency keeps talking about issuing more fines, but it doesn't matter much," said Bruce Dial, a former inspector for the mine safety agency. "The number of citations means nothing when the citations are small, negotiable and most often uncollected."
Before the January disaster at the Sago Mine near here, where 12 miners died, the operator had been cited 273 times since 2004. None of the fines exceeded $460, roughly one-thousandth of 1 percent of the $110 million net profit reported last year by the current owner of the mine, the International Coal Group.
[At a House oversight hearing on Wednesday, agency officials repeatedly cited the frequency of fines against Sago in the year before the accident as proof of aggressive enforcement. Exasperated, Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of California, replied that maybe those fines had little effect because many were for $60. That point set off applause from audience members.]
$60 is a freakin' parking ticket. The punishment for endangering the life and health of human beings (if you are a multi-mill company) is the same as forgetting to move your car for street-cleaning (if your are an individual). Actually, it's less-- they don't even get a yellow bootie.
Posted by hissycat at March 2, 2006 02:09 AM
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Just a note to let you know that you've misspelt 'exercise' in the title of your post. A typo, I'm sure, but since it is in the title and easily noticable, I thought I'd point it out.
Posted by: masale.wallah at March 2, 2006 04:32 AM
How embaresing!
Actually, it is embarrassing. I am a shamefully poor speller, but in this instance it really is a typo. Thanks for tip-off.
Posted by: hissycat at March 2, 2006 05:31 AM
I like your blog, I relate to you, especially the depression part. I was journaling today and I actually wrote what was so bad about dying from a heroin overdose alone in my apartment, for my relatives and friends to find my body and hear my fate on the gossip circuit.
I've been sick - have had a flu knock me on my ass for the past week, wiped me out so badly I was laying on the floor of my office sleeping three out of five days last week. But have also been long term depressed for years and years - don't know how I keep going on.
I would say you are younger and have more tools and are closer to acheiving your dreams than I am or ever was - don't give up yet. Yet. You have a right to when you are perhaps in your mid forties or so and have run out of energy and can no longer bullshit yourself any longer. Keep on trying for now - maybe try a little counseling, maybe try an anti-depressant. It's worth a try.
I like your stuff - you are funny and good. Hang in there.
Posted by: ChrisKaye at March 11, 2006 05:15 PM
Out of sight, out of mind... Hercules
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