Bastille giving colourful accounts of the events in the castle. Stories and pictures about the rescue of the fictional Count de Lorges – supposedly a mistreated prisoner of the Bastille incarcerated by Louis XV – and the similarly imaginary discovery of the skeleton of the "Man in the Iron Mask" in the dungeons, were widely circulated as fact across Paris. In the coming months, over 150 broadside publications used the storming of the Bastille as a theme, while the events formed the basis for a number of theatrical plays. Despite a thorough search, the revolutionaries discovered only seven prisoners in the
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