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...always pay the anticipated dividends. When money is poured into building another prison cell at the expense of rebuilding a prisoner's self-image, it is often just a prelude to more -- and worse -- crime. "They start as drug offenders, they eventually become property-crime offenders, and then they commit crimes against people," ( says Michael Sheahan, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. "They learn this trade as they go through the prison system...
...something bad," says Larry Jobe, 32, who is imprisoned at a supermax facility in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota. "They are so blind with rage that they can't think about the consequences." Jobe, a former accountant who is serving life for a murder he insists he did not commit, knows the risk of long sentences: "After so many years, they have nothing to lose...
Imagine the following scenario: while viewing an apartment, you are told by the housekeeper that the previous tenant tried to commit suicide and are shown the precise spot where she had jumped through the window to lacerate herself on the glass roof below...
...paper must be available to everyone, and must be read, to have a real hope of being a community newspaper. I say give out the Crimson for free; drop it at every Harvard dorm room. We've tried the hard sell for decades; it's time to commit ourselves to serving Harvard students, not charging them...
There's a difference between being apathetic and being unopinionated. Lack of opinion indicates an interest, but lack of willingness to commit. It indicates a concern, but a lack of desire to fight, or to put yourself on a limb. Having no opinions is disturbingly safe...