Baltimore

ur my neighbor but not really

'hood neighbors at least!

precariously secured load in w. balt.
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is transmodern fest happening this year? did i miss it? i can't find anything :(

harbl have you seen the NY article on BCDC yet? It is U&K that I discuss with you. We can do it in person, even. Preferably not at the BCDC.

yes. i felt a little bit let down by it because i had already read all the stories about it and indictments so it didn't add anything new for me. i wish they had gotten someone local to write it. i have been in the bcdc & central booking a lot. i was even visiting the day the big news came out!

iirc i was not really successful at visiting that day because of their arbitrary metal detector policies and underwire undergarment fail

yeah I'm guessing there was stuff in the WaPo about the indictments, but I was away and missed all of that. Trying to get my head around "[female] CO had [consensual BUT NOT RILLY] sex with [male] inmate, has baby, rolling on working as CO" thing. It's such a reversal of what I think of as "non-consensual" sex--like, the CO + inmate thing, with female (who under other situations would be considered totally consenting) having sex with man (who under under other situations would be considered totally consenting) is not in situation with female CO sexually assaulting male inmate why because that's how this stuff is legally defined? And the pregnancies, etc. . .

um that could have used an edit, but hopefully you get my meaning. I mean the sitch would be different WOULD IT NOT were it male COs with female inmates, oh I think so.

haha i am having difficulty understanding the question

Yeah that made no sense, sorry. Question is: "Do we treat Male CO having sex with Female Inmate differently than we do Female CO having sex with Male Inmate Y/N"?

I think Y, when both say it was consensual, which legally (iirc) is not even possible because there cannot be (legal) "consent" in a CO/inmate sitch.

my response to this question feels complicated

so it would be completely different if it was male COs and female inmates (i am 100% sure that that is something that happens in the women's jail as well, by consenting and non-consenting parties), but it cannot be compared to this situation by substitution. there are too many factors. it is a crime in maryland for a CO to have sex with an inmate. i don't think it's true that inmates--male or female--cannot ever consent. i think that was certainly a concern in making it illegal, but the bigger problem for people who make laws is that it's a crime against the administration of the jail, because you would get into this cycle of behavior where the COs have no power over the inmates. COs are supposed to have power over inmates, so in the ideal jail, sex between them would not be consensual. if COs are not successful in showing authority over inmates (as happened here), they might have consensual sex. if COs and inmates are having consensual sex, it's like they aren't even COs anymore. i don't feel capable of thinking about this in black and white, i guess.

Yeah I think you have put--very astutely and with a lot more first-hand knowledge than I have--the complication! I mean it comes down to way bigger institutional realities, which is: what do you expect from your corrections professionals and is that reasonable given who you hire and what you pay those folks and the context in which you hire the (i.e. ppl who know each other from growing up in the same [challenging] neighborhood).

And also the law, which is like a whole other animal with whole other issues

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haha i knew after two words it was him

charles village

https://twitter.com/GoffSolid/status/461599179132141569/photo/1

Holy crap

http://i.imgur.com/Cg9aaXw.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBbAznSFRQ

is that tim at kfc dot edu

dude's youtube account is named dogsandwolves and he's got a lavalamp. wkiw.

My friend's studio is right across the street from the collapse (you can see the building in the pic amon posted) and I've parked on that side of the street a million times. Last time, 2 weeks ago, the street had slid down so much that my car was at like a 45 degree angle.

best yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNluXrrHKY

holy shit

http://i.imgur.com/bVrWNaa.jpg

no

I agree that this map is bad but i stop at the "truckers and whores" wawa a lot on my way to jersey and that part at least is pretty accurate

http://i.imgur.com/IPWDX1P.png

ayyyy roxy is playing here on tuesday
hey im going on tour again holler at me in your town if u like doom metal and/or friendship

:( i'm going to be out of town

He also said urban casinos could "prey" on a city's poor, who can least afford risking their money. Rawlings-Blake bristles at the notion.

"I think there's a tendency for people to think we have to substitute our judgment for that of poor residents," she said. "They are aware of their financial obligations and what they can afford."

The mayor said she is satisfied that sufficient measures are in place to help problem gamblers, and that the city has sufficient "high-quality hotels, many a short distance away from the casino" to attract high rollers.

how can someone with such a low IQ be the mayor

i canvassed/campaigned for slots in 08 and i feel dirty now

Last year, 858 Maryland residents died due to alcohol or drug intoxication; that's enough to replace the entire University of Maryland football team more than eight times.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/#ixzz3BnIzY7BB

weird comparison

that's enough to replace oliver platt 858 times

How many times could the basketball team be replaced by cocaine fatalities?

also why specify university of maryland? aren't all football teams the same size?

is 858 that unfathomable of a number? it's not like you have to explain how many times around the earth you can wrap it

i went to the university of maryland

i just thought i should mention that go terps

my boss went there............

go trep

gro treps

how many dead maryland residents would i need to walk on top of to reach dundalk

858 people, or 1.3% of dundalk, died

all of glen burnie

btw http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/glen-burnie/ph-ac-cn-arundel-digest1-0829-20140829,0,4295785.story