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An early sign was the cons' new awareness of their legal rights. Courts had long kept hands off prisons on the theory that wardens and guards needed virtually unfettered freedom to control convict populations. But judges too had experienced their own consciousness raising and could no longer overlook outright...
The painstakingly won array of new rights was directly connected to the upsurge of varied convict organizations. Most of the religious groups have contributed toward improving the quality of prison life, although one seems clearly frivolous. Prisoners at penitentiaries in Atlanta and San Quentin have formed the Church of the...
But it is also disturbing, because it is fundamentally unclear whether Hoffa's approach grapples with some of the real problems confronting prisoners and ex-cons. This does not mean that Hoffa is insincere about what he says, but more that Hoffa has not shared, or allowed himself to share...
Ex-Con Jimmy Hoffa was back in prison last week-but just for dessert. The ex-boss of the Teamsters was announcing to several hundred inmates of the prison in Norfolk, Mass., the opening of the New England chapter of the National Association for Justice, which he founded in 1972...
The debate over assured destruction and counterforce has raged, with varying degrees of intensity, for a number of years. But while theoreticians and government officials argued the pros and cons of different nuclear strategies, weapons technicians continued the job of programming the available warheads to strike targets in the U.S.S.R...