IT WAS JUST like every B-movie prison break you've ever seen. One evening in 1952, Clarence Eaton Bennett tied together several blankets and tossed them from a second- story window of the Ontario jail and quickly slid down to safety.
BREAKING OUT ALL OVER: We're beginning to think we should start watching Fox's Monday night surprise hit "Prison Break," because we're probably on it all the time. The crews and stars from the show are in town almost all the time these days, especially since the show has switched all the prison-break action to Florida, which is Hollywoodese for Long Beach.And, by the way, we call it a "surprise hit" because we didn't even know when it was on, which is Monday nights at 9, and that explains it; it's after Monday Night Football, which is also a "surprise" hit in the bad way - it's dropped so fully in quality and importance that we only still watch it out of knee-jerk habit and because we're afraid that the fellas would find out and we wouldn't be allowed to hang out and watch the game and ...
Perhaps it was reading about the agony of prison life on Paris Hilton's blog that inspired President [George W. Bush] to spare Lewis "Scooter" [Libby] any time behind bars by commuting his sentence on July 2. Bush's newfound commitment to fair sentencing for federal crimes should come as good news to the thousands of prisoners being held nationwide for possession of crack cocaine. Crack is the only drug for which mere possession triggers an automatic federal minimum. Since 1986, federal sentencing guidelines have made the penalties for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine equivalent to the penalties for 500 grams of powder cocaine. Bush is not the first president to ignore [Clarence Aaron]'s status. At the end of Bill Clinton's term, he pardoned 21 prisoners in the drug war, but left Aar...
Paul Haggis is back to his tricky script tricks with the thoroughly engrossing prison break thriller "The Next Three Days." He foreshadows, hides details, delays his "reveals" and does a pretty good job of keeping us guessing, even if we remember the 2003 French film he adapted for this Hollywood project. Russell Crowe, one of the few actors able to suggest "mild- mannered community college teacher" and "obsessed husband capable of breaking his wife out of jail" at the same time, stars as John, that teacher whose wife (Elizabeth Banks) has been arrested, tried and convicted of murdering her boss. John almost but not quite takes his lawyer's bad news lying down.
This fall, candidates for state and national office are likely to sound the familiar refrain, "Government should be run like a business." But sometimes business practices are not the right match for enterprises undertaken in the public interest. Take prisons, for example. The escape of three men from an Arizona corrections facility, and the subsequent cross-country run of one of the prisoners and his apparent fiancee has dominated news in recent days. Police allege this latter-day Bonnie and Clyde were a team in the escape. One relevant detail to the story is that the prison was privately run. In an effort to reduce state spending, Arizona contracted the operation of some of its prisons to private business. Other states have done the same.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - While ground fighting eased during the long Afghan winter, insurgents in the former Taliban headquarters of Kandahar were apparently busy underground. The Taliban say they spent more than five months building a 1,050- foot tunnel to the main prison in southern Afghanistan, bypassing government checkpoints, watch towers and concrete barriers topped with razor wire.
Concerned Maryland residents can now sign up for prison break alerts from any of the state's prison system areas. Since October, Marylanders have been able to sign up for escape notifications, which many call "reverse 911," by e-mail, phone or text message. About 750 state residents were signed up as of Dec. 1.
WORLD AT A GLANCE BAGHDAD | The accused mastermind of a Baghdad church siege that killed dozens last fall nearly escaped from prison Sunday after wresting a gun from a guard and launching an hours-long assault that left 17 people dead, including a top Iraqi counterterrorism general.
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