Word: ault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State prison systems around the country are backing up like flooded sewers, particularly in the South. To alleviate the glut in Georgia's prisons, Corrections Commissioner Allen Ault last month announced that no new inmates would be accepted in any of the state's 37 correctional facilities. Last week the state took an even more drastic step: it released 350 inmates, mainly first offenders with one year or less to serve...
...obvious solution would be to build more large prisons, but penologists do not believe that will work either. Says Georgia Commissioner Ault: "The more prisons you build, the more inmates you'll end up cramming inside...