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...among 31 murderers sent to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1962 to be executed or imprisoned for life. We weren't much different from those we found here, or those who had preceded us. We were unskilled, impulsive and uneducated misfits, mostly black, who had done dumb, impulsive things -- failures, rejects from the larger society. Now a generation has come of age and gone since I've been here, and everything is much the same as I found it. The faces of the prisoners are different, but behind them are the same impulsive, uneducated, unskilled minds that made dumb, impulsive...
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...
Students they are, or at least they say, From schools like Penn and Libert-ay, Duke, Temple, Alabama, And Southwestern Louisiana. They will converge, oh yes they will, Until but one can stand still...
...John Breaux (D.-Louisiana...
...obvious candidate to succeed Mitchell as majority leader, his departure set off an immediate scramble. Thomas Daschle of South Dakota discreetly worked the phones, gauging potential support. White House insiders would be happy with Daschle or West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller. And some Senate staff members mentioned Louisiana's John Breaux, a prominent opponent of the Clinton health-care package...