Corrections

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• [pic] “The Precious of Corrections,” gets caught sleeping while on Duty in Rikers Island

  
  STREET KNOWLEDGE MEDIA — Authority: 147
  Looks like the “the Precious of Corrections,” is gonna be looking for another job.A correction officer has been disciplined for dozing on the job after a colleague snapped a picture of her asleep while on post at a Rikers Island infirmary, officials said yesterday.A clearly conked-out Nadja Green is leaning in a ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- A Dec. 28 Page One article about the Christmas Day incident aboard a Detroit-bound airliner incorrectly said that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, received his engineering degree from City University in London. The degree was from University College London.
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• Reporting, like 911, is a joke.

  
  Gynomite! — Authority: 434
  This awesome blog called Regret the Error collects factual error corrections from newspapers around the world and puts them in one spot, which is brilliant, so of course the guy who runs it, Craig Silverman, put out a book of the best ones. In the “Best of 2009″ post, he awards this year’s best correction to ...
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• How Laser Eye Surgery Works

  
  Naked News — Authority: 175
  You can forget about glasses and contact lenses if you undergo laser eye surgery for correcting your vision.
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• Corrections from the last week.

  
  Slate Magazine — Authority: 694
  In a Dec. 23 "Recycled" on whether Mary was a virgin, the introduction mistakenly referred to the virgin birth of Jesus as the Immaculate Conception. [ more ... ] Mary - Immaculate Conception - Christianity - Religion and Spirituality - Virgin birth of Jesus
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- A review of the movie "Nine" in todays Weekend section, which was printed in advance, criticizes its director, Rob Marshall, over the way dancers were filmed in "Chicago" and "Dreamgirls." The reference to the latter film is incorrect; Marshall directed "Chicago," but Bill Condon directed...
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• DOCS Opens Marcy Residential Mental Health Unit

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 523
  ONEIDA COUNTY—A first-in-the-nation, 100-bed Residential Mental Health Unit opened at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County this month for male inmates with serious mental illness and disciplinary confinement sanctions.The new program initiative, developed collaboratively by the Department of Correctional ...
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• Year in review: Michigan’s top HIV stories of 2009

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  From terrorism to discrimination to privacy issues, HIV-related issues made headlines in Michigan in 2009. 1. HIV-as-terrorism case in Macomb County Perhaps the most watched, and outrageous, HIV related story of 2009 is the situation facing Daniel Allen, a 44-year-old Clinton Township resident who has been ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- The amount of cholesterol listed in the nutritional analysis for Holiday Crepe Cake, a recipe in the Dec. 23 Food section, was incorrect. A serving contains 171 milligrams of cholesterol, not 39. The corrected recipe appears online at www.washingtonpost.com/recipes .
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• State will make money on deal to house PA prisoners in Muskegon prison

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  The Michigan Department of Corrections says a deal to house prisoners from Pennsylvania will net the state nearly three quarters of a million dollars in revenue. The Muskegon Chronicle reports on comments from MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan: “It seems to be percolating and resonating, that we’re losing ...
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• Virginia and Michigan win the Pennsylvania lottery

  
  Speaking Freely — Authority: 115
  "Congratulations, Virginia and Michigan! Youve just won millions of dollars from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania! All you have to do is house 2,000 of our inmates for about three years. How do you feel?" Its a deal. The PA Department of Corrections will move 2,000 of its inmates to prisons in Michigan and ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- A Whats the Deal? item in the Dec. 13 Travel section incorrectly listed London; Athens; and Nice, France, among the destinations that can be paired with Rome in a trip from Washington in the "City Duet" package offered by Central Holidays. Only the Rome-and-Paris City Duet package is available...
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• T.I. released from prison

  
  Under The Gun Review — Authority: 147
  Courtesy of XXL : The King is back. XXLMag.com has learned that T.I. was released from prison this morning (December 22) and will be admitted into a halfway house in his hometown of Atlanta, later today. XXL spoke with Tip’s lead defense attorney in his federal gun case, Steve Sadow, who confirmed the news. “He ...
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• Mich. Dept. of Corrections ‘looking’ into ex-gay ministry affiliation with prisons

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 590
  A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections announced Monday that the department was reviewing its affiliation with the controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing. “The department’s position is that when you are ministering to a group or even an individual that the content of that not ...
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• Mich. Dept. of Corrections ‘looking’ into ex-gay ministry affiliation with prisons

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  LANSING — A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections announced Monday that the department was reviewing its affiliation with the controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing. Michigan Department of Corrections “The department’s position is that when you are ministering to a group ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- A Dec. 21 Page One article about the weekend snowstorm, in reporting that a family member delivered the baby when a woman went into labor at a house in Takoma Park, said responding emergency vehicles became stuck in a snowbank, implying that they did not make it to the scene. A Montgomery County...
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• Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in fact sell either tiger or lion urine.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 727
  Top news errors & corrections of 2009.
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• Kansas Legislature to Consider Repeal in 2010

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 485
  " Legislature to consider end to death penalty ," is the title of Ron Sylvesters report for the Wichita Eagle, via the Kansas City Star. Kansas will consider abolishing the death penalty next year as death sentences are declining across the United States. Fewerpeople were sentenced to death this year than any ...
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• You practice candoble?

  
  Good, Bad, and Ugly — Authority: 420
  Brazil needle victim recovers, outrage at cruelty The pair were guided by a local practitioner of an African-Brazilian religion, candoble, and Magalhaes inserted the needles into the boy at his lover’s home. I just read this story and was deeply annoyed. What is candoble? If the author or “editor” had ...
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• Corrections

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  -- A Dec. 18 Page One article about the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen incorrectly said that lawyer David Remes represents seven Yemeni detainees. He represents 17.
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