Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow.
Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado Department of Corrections expects them to land jobs with health benefits and cuts off care entirely, while halfway houses don’t do anything to augment the lack of a basic safety net for the jobless.
John Common will break down blogging for you.
As someone who's been blogging since before that was a word -- I created and maintained a personal journal-type site back in 1998, using HTML hand-coded in Notepad and uploaded to my server via FTP -- I've been there for most every change the medium has seen. But one thing that has remained a consistent strength throughout all that time is the personality that shines through in the best blogs. In a way that almost no print media offers (a few top-ti
