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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...
...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...
...three men were killed. (One white prisoner was hit in the groin by a ricocheting bullet.) A black man shouted to the guard that he wanted to take one of the wounded to the hospital, but the guard gestured with his rifle, telling him to stay away. The wounded convict, shot in the leg, bled to death on the concrete floor of the exercise yard. In letters that were written long before this "incident," George Jackson tells us that he always stays near the wall in the exercise yard, to have some cover when the firing starts; for when...