Word: booted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After nearly one-and-a-half years of boot camp, military fashion has finally hit the Square...
...game against Dartmouth, where the defense rose to the occasion, while the offense sputtered in victory. Not a 50-28 game against Lehigh, either, when the offense put some points on the board, but the defense gave up more, and 600 yards of total offense to boot...
...Georgia, experts say 35% of boot-camp graduates are back in prison within three years, roughly the same rate as for those paroled from the general prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation" in 1965, sentencing first offenders to the penitentiary for 90 days. The disastrous results were indolence, sodomy and violence. ) Prisoners at the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway played real-life roles in which they confronted juvenile offenders on probation to demonstrate the violence behind the walls. Subsequent studies by Rutgers University...
...inherent fault with such scare tactics, says David C. Evans, Georgia's commissioner of corrections, is expecting too much from them. Says he: "Too many middle-class whites see it as the answer, a panacea." But with minimal counseling or after-shock guidance, the boot-camp experience "is just a car wash for criminals who are supposed to be cleansed for life," says Pat Gilliard, executive director of the Clearinghouse on Georgia Prisons and Jails. Edward J. Loughran, commissioner of the department of youth services in Massachusetts, dismisses the whole idea of shock therapy because "you cannot undo...
They took. That summer he captured his first tournament, and he went on to win the Michigan high school tennis championship. He also excelled in other sports. He was quarterback on the Monroe High football team, captain of the basketball team and city badminton champion to boot...