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Historibarb sounds good.

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Except for a couple of wings of the Maze for a few decades.

While the Europeans don't have the same attitude that prisons should (a) be a profit source for private corporations and (b) be made as ghastly as possible and therefore no attempt may be made to prevent inmates from suffering dehumanizing brutality on a daily basis, there's nowhere on earth where it's a safe place to be.

<a href="http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/16\/Suppl_1\/A237.1" target="_blank">For example</a>: "All Inmates of a prison for prisoners awaiting trial (Bordeaux, France) were eligible for this cross-sectional study. 375 inmates have been face-to-face interviewed by an experienced psychologist ... Of them, 24% were victim of physical violence at least once a month and 10% perpetrated physical violence at least once a month."

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<a href="http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/attendance\/_\/sort\/homePct\/order\/false" target="_blank">Hey now</a>, Mets tickets may be easy to get, but at least they're not Cleveland.

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Kirsten:

That would make a great movie! A poor community with terrible schools can't get government help so it pretends to be a crime organization to bribe politicians to improve itself.

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We can call it The Mouse That Whimpered.

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No, because the detention unit for the ICTY is run with considerably more focus on inmate safety than the rest of the Dutch prison system. Yes, I acknowledge that's quite relevant to this thread, but it does mean it's inappropriate to generalize from there to all of Northern Europe.

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Well, true, but given the choice I'd <em>much</em> rather be imprisoned in Bordeaux than Warsaw.

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I <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=pDWGSzOfXEg&amp\;feature=related" target="_blank">hear</a> "cigarro" fairly clearly.

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Do there see I what you.

Took me until the second reading to get it though. Damn you brainautocorrect.

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My brain read what the OC meant, not what they wrote, so I kinda missed your inspiration.

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Sports tickets? Without any gay hookers, wet suits or Truck Nutz abuse I give this scandal a D-. Ben, you are a disappointment in so many ways.

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I thought they used bullets for currency in Arizona.

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Really? The Cardinals? What a crappy football team to go to jail over.

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I think this might be an example of why helmets should be mandatory for people who insist on playing full body contact croquet, other than that... WTF???

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