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Getting tough has always been a "silver bullet," a quick fix for the crime and violence that society fears. Each year in Louisiana -- where excess is a way of life -- lawmakers have tried to outdo each other in legislating harsher mandatory penalties and in reducing avenues of release. The only thing to do with criminals, they say, is get tougher. They have. In the process, the ! purpose of prison began to change. The state boasts one of the highest lockup rates in the country, imposes the most severe penalties in the nation and vies to execute more criminals per capita...
Chien also said the project handout thatSeltzer distributed in class was not helpful. "Itwas bugged," he said. "It took three days for [theTF's] to fix all the mistakes...
Dowling acknowledged there are problems with supervision, but said he hasn't been been given the manpower to fix...
Administrators say they are moving to fix theproblem. Both Buell and Knowles say that theywould support more rigid guidelines in TFtraining...
...staff correctly points out the financing problem with the Clinton plan. But in discussing this "sideeffect," The Crimson seems to miss the proposal's critical faults. President Clinton's health care reform plan is founded on the belief that we can rely on government to fix our problems...