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...exceedingly difficult to moke people realize that an evil is an evil. For instance, we seize a man and deliberately do him a malicious injury: say, imprison him for years. One would not appear that it needed any exceptional cruelty. --George Bernard Shaw...
...system researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Even with the decline, murder in the U.S. is more prevalent than in other industrial democracies. The violent crime rate in New York City was, in fact, 22 times that of Tokyo in 1983. Only the Soviet Union and South Africa imprison their populations at higher rates than...
Free elections have not taken place in South Korea since 1971 when Kim was defeated in the presidential election. The reigning military dictatorship of President Chun Doo Hwan has threatened to either imprison Kim or place him under house arrest upon return...
What he meant was, in part, that America's manhood was back. By his account, the Administration of Jimmy Carter and, he always added, of Walter Mondale, had stood for weakness and inefFectuality, for letting foreigners like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of manhood ran deeply through the campaign. The U.S. had lost the long war in Viet Nam; the nation seemed smaller and diminished in the world: unmanned. Reagan restored a sense of what was good, what was virtuous, about being a man. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that...
...states have passed some form of mandatory sentencing legislation-that is, laws stipulating that offenders convicted of certain crimes, or of a succession of crimes, must go to prison. In New York, for instance, the prisoner explosion is partly the result of a 1978 law requiring judges to imprison all violent-felony offenders...