Word: brin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City, ran "Glimpses of Begin," a sympathetic report on his folksy personal side designed to counter the "terrorist" image. "We didn't feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly St. Louis Jewish Light. But other editors put it differently. Says Herb Brin, editor of the Heritage and Southwest Jewish Press in Los Angeles: "We've done drumhammer support for him. We refuse to bend." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israel lobby in Washington, rushed out a two-page white paper claiming that Begin's reputation...
...prison environment contradicts the goal of the system," Brin said. "Rehabilitation must take place outside the prison...
...Louis Brin, a noted prison reformer, told 50 people in Phillips Brooks House that prisons, public schools, and hospitals are repressive and de-humanizing and should be reformed yesterday...
...said that prisons should contain only those people who can't function in a free environment. That would leave only a hundredth of the present prison population, he said. "Too many busybody laws proscribing behavior clutter up the courts and the prisons," Brin continued...
Efforts to treat prisoners are really only exercises in control because of the attempt to both rehabilitate and punish inmates at the same time, Brin said. This combination makes rehabilitation degrading, he said...