Place de la Bastille many worse prisons in France, including the dreaded Bicêtre, also in Paris. However, in terms of popular literary accounts, the Bastille was a place of horror and oppression, a symbol of autocratic cruelty. The confrontation between the commoners and the Ancien Régime ultimately led to the people of Paris storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, following several days of disturbances. At this point, the prison was nearly empty, with only seven inmates: four counterfeiters, two madmen, and a young aristocrat who had displeased his father. The regular garrison consisted of about 80 'invalides' (veteran soldiers no longer capable of
Locked in the Poorhouse the “welfare” system – but, by 2008, “welfare” had been ended for over 10 years. Returning to the findings of the Kerner Commission, Currie concluded that the real problems were: • Jobless rates among black men that remained stratospheric even in times of economic growth; • The retreat from an already minimal commitment to investment in job creation and training; and • A stunning rise in incarceration of black men with no corresponding effort to reintegrate them on their release into productive roles in the community. Locked in the Poorhouse Locked in the Poorhouse is a 30-year update of the