Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ASSESSING THE BLAME...
...example of the kind of material he would keep out of prisons, Sergeant William Hankins of San Quentin cites the books found in George Jackson's cell after his death, notably Das Kapital by Karl Marx and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Other prison officials place the blame for radical attitudes largely on outsiders, who, they claim, reach the inmates through lawyers or cultural groups...
Critics contend that outside influence is hardly to blame. As Fay Slender, a San Francisco attorney who works with inmates, explains: "We treat everybody in prisons so badly that it isn't surprising that we produce these intense, very romantic, revolutionary people. When people have been caged up as long as they have, the wonder is that we don't see more violence than we really do." Indeed, despite some isolated improvement, most prisons are still better equipped to punish prisoners than to rehabilitate them. Official prison structures remain more likely to make new criminals or harden...
...abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally retarded and produced a searing expose of the squalor in which retarded children were left unclothed and unattended. With no attempt at "objectivity," Rivera laid the blame for Willowbrook directly on the administration of Governor Nelson Rockefeller in his commentary filled with fury and even tears: "This is what it looked like. This is what it sounded like. But how can I tell you about the way it smelled? It smelled of filth, it smelled of disease...
...Cambridge Fire Department continues to list a smoldering cigarette as the official cause. York says he will see Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, this afternoon--partly to exonerate himself from any blame, he says, but also "because I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I went through in that room...