Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People felt they'd be lending their name to something more than trying to get Leary out of jail," Lindsay C. Gillies '76, one of two students circulating the petition, said of the reluctance of many professors to sign...
...Being in jail was like landing on the other side of the moon," he said of his prison experience. His obscenity-sprinkled poems derided "rich crooks," who steal from the government and are imprisoned...
...cavalry caught up with him at Spotted Tail's agency, and arrested him. Under the grasp of his former comrade, Little Big Man (now an Indian policeman), Crazy Horse was led to the agency jail. When he refused to enter, a guard stabbed the Oglala chief with his bayonet, while Little Big Man held him captive. Crazy Horse was buried, ironically enough, at Wounded Knee...
...just that reason, some reformers have urged that sentencing be done not by judges but by officials more closely familiar with prisoners, for instance parole authorities. Indeed California and a few other states have adopted a so-called "indeterminate sentencing" policy under which an offender stays in jail for as long or as short a time as penal officials think necessary for rehabilitation. Frankel thinks that this much-touted liberal reform amounts merely to passing the power of abuse along. Besides, he notes, the hard truth is that there is no successful prison rehabilitation to speak...
...committee also plans to expand its summer program this year. Summer activities will include teaching programs at Deer Island Prison and the Charles Street Jail, as well as research work on penal reform...