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Behind Bars ... Sort Of

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That's the title of an article written by Jim Lewis in the June 14 issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine.  LINK  Here's an excerpt from the beginning of this article: Go ahead and say it; everyone does. Certainly I did. Here?s a striking building, perched on a slope outside the small Austrian town of Leoben ? a sleek structure made of glass, wood and concrete, stately but agile, sure in its rhythms and proportions: each part bears an obvious relationship to the whole. In the daytime, the corridors and rooms are flooded with sunshine. At night, the whole structure glows from within. A markedly well-made building, and what is it? A prison.Everybody says this, or something like it: I guess crime does pay, after all. Or, That?s bigger than my apartment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).