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The problems in the prisons affect not only the inmates, but the whole criminal-justice system. Local jails designed to hold convicts until they are sentenced often find that when the time comes to transfer them, the prisons are full. In Michigan, 10,000 criminals have gained early release under...
Unless alternative programs for dangerous criminals are created, some experts say, incarceration will serve only to escalate the viciousness of American crime. "It animalizes people," says Criminologist Richard Korn of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "They sit in there building fury." Says Charles, the young...
Who bombed the Rainbow Warrior? That has been the puzzling question ever since two explosions blew a hole in the hull of the 130-ft. converted trawler as it lay anchored in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand, on July 10. A crew member was killed in the blast. The...
While the economics of synfuels turned sour, mismanagement and improprieties within the SFC also contributed to the agency's political problems. Its first president, Victor Schroeder, resigned in 1983 amid accusations that he had improperly charged $25,000 in mortgage payments on his home to the SFC. A year later...
Early this year a bomb went off in a computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the...