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Last week, Bennett, who may be the best penologist in U.S. history, retired from a career that he began in 1927 as an obscure Government efficiency expert investigating federal prisons. What he found was 19 scandal-tainted Siberias jammed with idle, desperate cons and untrained, underpaid guards. Bennett's...
Home Leave? One result is the Bennett-invented Federal Prisons Industries Inc., which does a $40 million a year business with other Government agencies and turns a $4,000,000 annual profit over to the Treasury. Another Bennett innovation is saner sentencing. In the old days, all federal sentences were...
A good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in...
Can the bookies legally avoid payment? Britons argued the pros and cons in bus queues and on commuter trains. Under Britain's Gaming Act legislation, a bettor cannot sue a bookmaker and vice versa. The police indicated that they saw no grounds for action against anybody, but the bettors...
Fed Suspicion. On balance, Louis Fischer's is the best of the three biographies. Fischer has devoted much of his long lifetime to the study of Russia (The Soviets in World Affairs; Russia, America, and the World), and he soberly weighs those episodes that the other two biographers sometimes...