It's been more than two years since the Philadelphia Daily News first published allegations by a longtime confidential informant that Philadelphia narcotics officer Jeffrey Cujdik had fabricated evidence used to obtain search warrants in drug cases.

Two years ago, Herbert and Catherine Schaible placed their infant son, Kent, into bed with apparent flu symptoms and, under the direction of their church pastor, prayed over the boy instead of seeking medical help. The child died in his sleep.

Rove quoted James Carville's well-worn statement that Pennsylvania is "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between," but then amended it. "It's starting to look like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Texas in between."

What if the prisoners' complaints are real, and no one believes them? That possibility makes the situation at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas intriguing.

Solitary confinement. In Pennsylvania, the phrase itself is controversial.

When Matthew Bullock fashioned a noose from a bed sheet, secured it around his neck, tied it to thin steel bars in the face-high window of his solitary confinement cell, then sat down hard in an effort to break his neck and suffocate himself, it wasn't the first time he'd attempted suicide.

"When you commit a crime as a juvenile, you probably wouldn't make those same choices when you're an adult. I want to give people the chance to become better people and to be rewarded for that."

"What we want is the opportunity to review these cases on a case-by-case basis and to see if these children, now that they're adults, have rehabilitated themselves and if they're still a risk to society."

The phrase "lockdown" doesn't quite get to the core of how militarized and contained Pittsburgh really was throughout the two-day G20 Sept. 24 and 25.

The Defenestrator is released quarterly, or as often as finances and personal schedules allow. It is one of the longest-running and few remaining anarchist publications in the U.S., and it began as a photocopied newsletter. The first release was called "Issue 0," and back then, it was laid out by hand — literally cut out and pasted onto pieces of paper.