<table> </table> <strong><span class="subhead">Neglect of immigrants</span></strong></p><p><strong>From </strong><em><strong>The New York Times</strong></em></p><p>A chilling article by Nina Bernstein in <em>The Times </em>recounted the secrecy, neglect and lack of oversight that are a few of the shameful symptoms of the booming sector of the nation&#8217;s prison industry &#8212; the detention of undocumented foreigners.</p><p>Bernstein chronicled the death of Boubacar Bah, a tailor from Guinea who was imprisoned in New Jersey for overstaying a tourist visa. He fell and fractured his skull in the Elizabeth Detention Center early last year. Though clearly gravely injured, Bah was shackled and taken to a disciplinary cell. Nobody told Bah&#8217;s relatives until five days after his fall. When they finally found him, he was on life support, soon to become one of the 66 immigrants known to have died in federal custody between 2004 and 2007.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Gas-tax holiday</span></strong></p><p><strong>From the <em><strong>Honolulu Advertiser</strong></em></strong></p><p>Is there anyone &#8212; besides Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain &#8212; who thinks a federal gas-tax holiday is a good idea? They contend the tax break would provide cheaper gas during a peak demand period, lowering prices on commodities affected by the cost of transportation, like food &#8220;and just about everything else,&#8221; to use McCain&#8217;s words.</p><p>It won&#8217;t work. The cost of gas is driven by supply and demand. Peak summer travel increases demand. With refineries running at near capacity, supply is limited, so prices will rise, especially if the possibility of cheaper gas increases demand more.