Word: commited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CURRENT SYSTEM punishes all of us with a huge financial burden and the lost potential of human beings committed to a system which will surely ruin them. There are many reasons people commit crimes besides being inherently evil, Poverty, lack of education, hunger and drug habits are just a few. Yet our overcrowded prisons seem aptly designed to ensure that, whatever they are when they are incarcerated, people emerge the anti-social beasts we have ourselves they...
Which brings us to the third justification for imprisonment rehabilitation. But does locking people up in cages seem a good way to rehabilitate them? Certainly, it will score them, but we are operating from the promise that much of the reason that people commit crimes is that they either do not know better or cannot help themselves to be rehabilitation to be educated, to be given a chance adopt a new lifestyle...
QUOTE: "We do commit the U.S. to preventing the fall of South Viet Nam to Communism...
...conscience." Those who fought in the war carried a burden of guilt unrelieved by the customary rites of absolution, by the parades, the welcome home, the collective embrace that gathers a soldier back into the fold of the community after he has been sent out to commit the inevitable horrors of a war that his elders told him was necessary...
...Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention of "dangerous" defendants, increases penalties for major drug offenses and eliminates wide disparities in sentences for people who commit similar crimes. Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson's celebrated reference to New York could be applied nationally when it comes to crime: "There are no more liberals . . . They've all been mugged...