Million inmates mark grim milestone in U S prison system
Washington AP reports the U S prison population passed 1 012 851 inmates by June with 919 143 in state facilities and 93 708 in federal prisons. The rate, 373 per 100 000 residents, highlights growth driven by drug and property offenses and longer sentences. California and Texas together hold over 245 000 inmates.
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Bureau of Justice Atistics
America
Ian
Allen Beck
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Atistics Bureau
Beck
Marc Mauer
Sentencing Project
Mauer
Bureau
California
Texas
Missing Union boys Abduction Upends Rural South Carolina
In Union South Carolina residents search in fear for Michael Smith and Alex Smith, 8 and 14 months, allegedly abducted with their mother Susan Smith by a gunman after a traffic stop. Police received thousands of tips, investigators use helicopters and volunteers scour fields as yellow ribbons honor the missing children.
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Michael Smith
Alex Smith
Susan Smith
Union
David Smith
Howardells
FBI
Tommy Hart
South
Bernice Jennings
McBeth Baptist Church
Janie Means
Miranda Simmons
Rikki Foster
Salisbury
N.C
Tom Lowe
Thelma Howard estate left to charity and son
Walt Disney housekeeper Thelma Howard died June 10 just before 80. She left half of her 9 million fortune to poor and disabled children, with annual 250000 grants, and the other half to her son Michael who lives at a developmental disabilities home.
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Los Angeles
Walt Disney
Hazel
Mary Poppins
Thelma Howard
Disney
Jack Shakely
California Community Foundation
Howard
Michael
Shakely
CDC urges stricter TB guidelines for hospitals in fight
Atlanta report notes two years of revisions and debates lead CDC to push hospitals to adopt tighter rules to curb TB spread. Mask standards, ultraviolet air treatment, ventilation, and record-keeping are being tightened amid drug-resistant cases and hospital outbreaks. Washington observers call USPS culture dysfunctional with autocratic managers clashing with unions. A critic cites no clear framework to implement shared values among front line staff.
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Atlanta
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Unsons
Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Marvin Runyon
Hospital report cards roll out for inspections in December
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will issue performance reports for about 1 400 hospitals nursing homes clinics surgical centers home care agencies and mental health units starting December 8 for 80 each. Additional reports will follow as new inspections occur over the next two years.
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U.S
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Brinkley on media role after Kennedy assassination
Newsman David Brinkley recalled at a Norfolk State University conference that after Kennedy's death the media provided reassurance while fighting rumors. He said reporters then told the truth, but today cover stories like the O J Simpson case intensely, as audiences demand.
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Kennedy
David Brinkley
ABC
Norfolk State University
RU 486 abortion pill study begins nationwide rollout
In New York the Population Council conducts the first U S nationwide study of the French abortion pill mifepristone RU 486. More than 100 women have been given the pill since September in an eight million dollar trial that could allow U S use by 1996. Security was tight at the news conference with guards at the entrance and reporters required to show ID.
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New York
C. Wayne Bardin
The
Population Council
United States
Bardin
Mount Airy approves Four Counties Military Museum plan
A Damascus resident proposes converting the vacant top floor of the old town hall into the Four Counties Military Museum to collect artifacts from Howard, Carroll, Montgomery and Frederick Counties. The Marine Corps League Detachment 770 will run it with free admission and weekend hours, starting after January 1, with donations sought to cover costs.
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Mount Airy
Montgomery County
Dominic Naples
Damascus
Four Counties
Howard
Carroll
Montgomery
Frederick
Gerald Johnson
Naples
Johnson
Park Avenue
South Main Street
Marine Corps League Detachment 770
Armed Services
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