Jail Guitar Doors, CA

The new head of California's Department of Corrections (160,000 perps and still growing) is a woman. An iron-fisted, lace-gloved sign o' the times thinks you? Think again. Jeanne Woodford, the outgoing warden of San Quentin, is the rare modern jailer who believes in rehabilitation. And no less a tough-on-crime demagogue than Governator Hummer chose her to run his prisons. With one eye on the brutal budget, and another on the $30k that each inmate costs annually, Ahnold's view presents a double vision that might make social conservatives dizzee. Chancing a liberal ideal to save some dough -- it's about time. Cause the stat that jumped out of David Sheff's good-hearted profile of Woodford in the Times Magazine was that America's prison population has quadrupled in the last "20-odd years." Liberty and justice for all indeed.