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...seeking a middle ground between the polarized views of 'Lock them all up' or 'Let them all go,'" says John A. Calhoun, Commissioner of the Division of Youth Services (DYS), a state-funded agency that is charged with detaining and referring delinquent youth both before and after they have been tried in court. Young and articulate, Calhoun has served as commissioner of DYS for the past 13 months. Within the state bureaucracy, he is strongly liked in some quarters, but disliked in others for his innovative and sometimes controversial views on juvenile delinquency...
...normative mode for treating kids is to lock them up--institutionalize them in some Oliver Twist-esque barn," Calhoun says, referring to the old training schools. He said that Massachusetts leads the country in the use of the more humane, community-based facilities like half-way houses...
...Kansas City Star Co. do not have offices of their own. Instead, they sit at desks in the newsroom, under the direct gaze of the staff. That is only fitting. Since 1926, when the estate of Founder William Rockhill Nelson was liquidated, the newspaper firm has been owned lock, stock and Linotype by its employees...
...list of leftouts continues. Professor James Q. Wilson's recent book Thinking About Crime, slashed through the blizzard of liberal sentiments about reform and re-education to outline a daring, new position in favor of jail cells and bread rations. Captain Lock-em-Up, who admittedly does not stand alone among Harvard government professors, will speak in a panel discussion at the Harvard Law Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School. Wilson's co-panelists will be Joseph Jordan, your average Boston Police Commissioner, and George V. Higgins...