Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prisons have not cured in the past, and there is not much hope they will in the future. The cure, or rehabilitation, as it is commonly called, does not come from the prison but rather from each individual convict. He and he alone makes the necessary mental changes to bring about rehabilitation...
...prisoners find themselves between the crushing walls of social ostracism and prison mores. But which of the two can the prisoner bear more easily? Statistics show for certain that most cannot cope with free-world rejection. Ironically, the freer of the two worlds for the convict is prison; it is there that he finds no social barriers like the pretentiousness of the elite. Who can blame former prisoners and parolees for seemingly breaking-down gates to get back...
...prison officials rebuffed Grant's idea, just as they do the work of other ex-convict groups seeking the same result. Instead of selfhelp, they favor trained officials working with fewer prisoners or parolees, a costly process that may well have little or no effect on the repeater rate. Thus skeptics wonder about efforts like the Federal Government's new $10.2 million Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center in Morgantown, W. Va., where 180 staffers work on a mere...
...secret police. It was Victor Louis who tried to beat Western publishers into print by offering European firms a version of Svetlana's Twenty Letters to a Friend. Either Louis or other KGB men are known to have placed authentic manuscripts in the West, often to try to convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect a split between the organization's hard-liners and a more moderate faction that is anxious to counter the neo-Stalinist tendencies of the present leadership with Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist...
...University had ever succeeded in finding the evidence necessary to convict Ryan, they certainly weren't showing it last week. Setting aside the accusation that Ryan was present at the May 11 demonstration, which he acknowledged in court, Harvard produced no conclusive proof that Ryan was also trespassing at Harvard on May 8. The sole evidence was the testimony of David A. Harnett, director of the Office of Advanced Standing, who said that he saw Ryan at University Hall on the morning of May 8, talking with a group of students. Harnett was so uninformed about the events of that...