| Advocacy Group Criticizes Alexander Lockup | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:00:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Punishment, not rehabilitation, appears to be the aim of staff members at the Alexander Youth Services Center housing the state's most dangerous juvenile offenders, according to a lawyer for a watchdog group that prepared a harshly critical report on the facility. "We don't think this is rehabilitation, and state law says it is supposed to be (for youthful offenders)," said Dana McClain, a senior attorney with the Disability Rights Center, which prepared the report. "I think it's punishment. I feel like these children are being set up to go to adult prison." The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Saturday obtained a copy of the report, which is expected to be released this week. The report comes days after the state ended its contract with Cornell Cos.... | |
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| | | Female halibut captain navigates through a sea of preconceptions | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 7:05:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEWARD, Alaska ? The small-boat harbor is cool and quiet at 6:30 a.m. on a Monday as Capt. Mereidi Liebner prepares the 34-foot twin-engine Jillian Dawn for a day of deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. Still struggling to get a solid foothold in the charter business, the 26-year-old from Soldotna regularly finds herself still doing the chores of deckhands ? cleaning windows with a squeegee, wiping down countertops and hauling fresh bait from the freezer. Prudhoe, her black 6-year-old Australian Healer, keeps her company. He licks a puddle of dew off the stern while the daily weather report crackles loudly on the VHF marine radio. "Sounds like it's going to be nice," says the four-year captain as she sips from a cup of tea. "Slight wind coming from the east." With four clients due to arrive shortly, she has little time to chit-chat and hurries about her work.... | |
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| | | Angola: Four Countries Meet to Discuss Sleeping Sickness | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:01:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Angolan Agriculture and Rural Development deputy minister, Drio Catata, returned Thursday to the country, after participating in the African Union Directive Committee on the Tsetse Fly Eradication Campaign. Talking to ANGOP at 4 de Fevereiro international airport, Drio Catata said that the meeting, which happened on 10-11 July, in Namibia, aims at balancing the activities planned for this year and planning next year's, with an objective of eradicating trypanosomiasis in Kuango and Zambeze regions. Four years ago the African Union created an organ to follow up and deal with matters related to trypanosomiasis in four countries, namely Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. The organ is coordinated by doctor Kambaio of Ugandan nationality. In Angola the directive committee comprises officials from the Agriculture Ministry through the veterinary services and by the Institute of Fight and Control of Trypanosomiasis.... | |
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