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...attention has just been called to your issue of January 12, 1984, with an article by Dr. Sissela Bok, "Securing Information." Of the Reagan administration's efforts to amend the Freedom of Information Act and to restrict access to information in other ways, Dr. Bok says...
Instead legislators are hoping delegates from states in the region meeting at MIT next week will agree to amend the compact or propose a new agreement, Smith says...
That possibility seems short-lived. The ink was barely dry on the court's decision when Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey introduced a bill to reverse it. In anticipation of the Bildisco ruling, Democratic Congressman Paul Simon of Illinois in early February submitted legislation to amend the National Labor Relations Act. "The court's decision was so total," said Captain Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, "if this doesn't gear up organized labor for a massive blitz on Congress, nothing will...
...example, passed a law permitting inmates to earn reductions of up to 50% in their sentences by participating in work or study programs. That kind of early release, of course, is just parole by another name. So are Connecticut's "supervised home time" and "reentry furlough" programs, which amend the state's fixed-time laws by allowing the release of inmates as much as six months early at the discretion of officials. Such emerging hybrids may lead to improvements. But criminal justice practitioners do not expect miracles. Neither should anyone else. -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Timothy...
Most officials agree that Congress will support the increases and amend the reductions...