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In October officials at Calgary Correctional Centre in Alberta discovered that a 20-year-old man due to be released in mid-November had used newspapers to compile a list of more than 150 homes he intended to burglarize once he got out. And in November, the Minnesota Department of Corrections discovered demographic data on girls aged 3 to 12 in the computer of a convicted pedophile. The inmate works in a prison-sponsored telemarketing business inside the Lino Lakes correctional facility and had gathered the information from hometown newspapers.
Election Recap
In September, Mickey Kalinay, 43, was defeated in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming despite his proposal to make the space program more efficient by constructing a 22,000-mile-high tower so that space stations could be accessed by electromagnetic rail cars.
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