Gordon Ramsay teaches prisoners to cook

Gordon Ramsay teaches prisoners to cook. LINK: Youtube

Appleton Mn "Prison May Reopen"

The privately run Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton may reopen and house prisoners from California.

According to a news release from the owner, Corrections Corporation of America, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation intends to award a new contract to them to manage about 3,200 offenders in Appleton and at the company's Colorado facility.

Appleton Mayor Ron Ronning, a 16-year employee of the prison, told the West Central Tribune that he's hoping the prison will reopen early in 2012.

The 1,600 bed prison closed in February. The company didn't give a specific time frame for employees being rehired there.

At full operation, its economic value was estimated at $45 million a year. LINK

Auschwitz Then and Now

Some of the prisoners liberated from Auschwitz in 1945 recreated the scenes of their lives there in art. An online exhibit places those artworks side-by-side with photographs of Auchwitz taken many years later.

In 1979, The Auschwitz Museum Archive reproduced selected pieces of art and sent them to writer/photographer Alan Jacobs.
After years of related work and many more trips, Jacobs, and his son Jesse, returned to the camps in 1996 to find and photograph the identical scenes depicted in the art. Krysia Jacobs then devised a way to present them as you see here. They are the result of work over a 24 year period.

An explanatory text, which may be disturbing, accompanies each image. Link -Via: Metafilter, Via: Neatorama

(image credit: Mieczyslaw Koscielniak/Auschwitz Museum Archive)

Filipino Prisoners Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson

They went over the top with this one. LINK: Youtube

Comment by LLLT:: I have yet to figure out why it is that it takes a persons passing to show them the respect they should have had when the were living and able to enjoy it.