Full house: prisons

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The UK prison population has reached record proportions and is growing at a rate of moe than 200 per week. As of July 1997, the population stands at 62,000, within 500 of the country's maximum prison capacity. Alternative incarceration methods, such as prison ships, electronic tagging, community service and private prisons all are being considered as possible methods to alleviate the problem. A last resort under the 1982 Criminal Justice Act is to release non-violent prisoners who have six months or less to serve.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
Individual and family services, Criminals Rehabilitation, Other Individual and Family Services, United Kingdom, Usage, Correctional institutions, Criminal rehabilitation, Prisons, Imprisonment, Alternatives to imprisonment, Alternative sentencing

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The mall of dreams

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The real estate development firm Triple Five plans to build The American Dream, a megamall/entertainment complex in the economically depressed Washington, DC, suburb of Silver Spring, MD. The concept of the American dream is placed in its sociopolitical context.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
Subdividers and developers, not elsewhere classified, Land Subdivision and Land Development, Shopping Center Developers, Planning, Real estate developers, Retail trade, Shopping centers, Silver Spring, Maryland, Triple Five Corporation Ltd.

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