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...from any abuses the detention officials might make of their absolute power. That the indeterminate sentence concept was not widely applied to other classes of convicts in America until after 1935 is perhaps more due to the efforts of the organized crime lobby than to those of the "treat 'em rough" school of penology...
...cross country team is getting over the flu--finally--and faces Dartmouth this afternoon at the Hanover Country Club Course. As to who will win: pick 'em...
...Bring Em Home...
...state government to administer youthful offenders. The most controversial aspect of the Institute's proposal was that the agency would assume jurisdiction as soon as the offender had been convicted, and thus assume the responsibility for his sentencing from the state course system. Dissipate the objections of the "treat 'em rough" school of penology, California became the first state to adopt the Institute's recommendations. with the major exception of retaining the power to grant probation in the courts...
Despite all of its innovative programs, the California Youth Authority operates on the same core assumptions that are the foundation of the philosophy of the "treat 'em rough" school: that the individual offender exclusively bears the guilt for his crime and that the sole goal of the state's incarceration of him is to force him to recognize this and correct the aberrant part of his psyche that caused him to commit a crime...