Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realm of presidential politics, the Massachusetts prison furlough program is a "hot button"--an emotionally stirring but largely irrelevant pseudo-issue that serves only to define a candidate's values...
...Bush demonstrator wore a striped prison suit and a sign proclaiming, "Willie Horton"--a reference to a convict who committed a murder while on a Massachusetts furlough plan under the Dukakis administration...
Bush campaigned in the swing states of Ohio and Missouri, where he referred to the attack that furlough escapee Willie Horton committed on a Maryland couple last year. He criticized Dukakis for having "an astounding lack of sensitivity for crime victims...
...part, the vice president used great detail to describe the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree in Maryland last year several months after being released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough...
Bush said that when people tried to look into the furlough program, "the governor's administration stonewalled, citing--and this is no joke--the prisoner's right to privacy...