Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Americans, prisons exist to hide and contain crime and as such, they are easily and best forgotten. But for a small number of volunteers--including the dozen or so Harvard students who tutor every Monday night in the Suffolk Country House of Correction at Deer Island--prisons are an extension of the lecture hall. Here, tutor and tutee meet in an atmosphere of mutual curiosity to explore and learn from each other. Establishment confronts outlaw, and sometimes both profit...
...goal is education, so they won't fall into crime again," says Kristin L. Walter '89, co-chairman of the committee...
...much more basic than pure academic instruction. By socializing with the prioners, tutors say, they hope to help the inmates reintegrate themselves into mainstream society. "We're trying to give them an outlet to the outside world," Walter says. "Exposure to nice, happy people who aren't involved in crime is good for them...
Comfortable with crime, prisoners become viciously suspicious of what they view as an unjust society. "The system is collapsed. There's a breakdown," explains Earl Williams, one of the few prisoners who has attended college...
...ethics in government, Dukakis would be wise to follow Carter's lead. Carter's one ethical liability, Bert Lance, was never convicted of any crime. This administration certainly outdid his record with its influence-peddling officials, ideologues-gone-astray, and just plain crooks--from Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, and Edwin Meese to Oliver North, John Poindexter, and William Casey to Anne Gorsuch, Rita Lavelle, and Raymond Donovan. Carter got Lance to resign, even after he was found innocent, while Reagan ignored rampant corruption...