Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that prisons fail at rehabilitation because they try to cure criminal tendencies in an overwhelmingly degrading environment. Instead of "compulsory helping programs," Morris wrote, prisons should require only that an inmate endure his set punishment; that the incarceration should not be mentally or physically brutalizing; and that the convict should be offered extensive training and other assistance, but the choice to accept should be his, on the theory that such things do not help the prisoner who does not want them...
...allow a prisoner to select from such programs as dental technician training; college, high school or literacy courses; and counseling for drug or alcohol abuse. He will be free to pass up all of them-and even to transfer to another prison after the first three months. Because the convict's release date cannot be affected by his choices, there is no incentive to "act" rehabilitated in order to win parole. His prison time will be extended, however, if an inmate is found guilty of a serious disciplinary offense...
...studies on the treatment of criminals reach the same conclusion: no matter what form rehabilitation takes-vocational or academic training, individual or group counseling, long or short sentences, probation or parole-it does not work. We must finally concede that it is naive to suppose we can take a convict who has devoted a good part of his life to misbehavior of every sort and transform his character...
...N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund's long war against executions, contended that even if the new laws require neutral enforcement of the death penalty there is inevitably "play" in the system. Prosecutors, for example, can always decide against bringing a capital charge and juries can convict for a lesser offense. This "elaborate winnowing process," said Amsterdam, means that only an arbitrarily selected few are sentenced to death...
...really a scary place," recalled Kallaugher, "evidently there are 20 to 30 murders there a year. Everyone carries around big sticks." In the middle of the proceedings a convict allegedly hit a fellow inmate with a two-by-four...