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...Arthur MacEwen, a former Harvard economics professor who now teaches economics at UMass, Boston, says it is "excessively naive at best" for HIID to consider itself an apolitical organization. "When you become an adviser, you can't pretend you're not involved with the politics of the client government, and HIID has done work with some pretty despicable governments in the past...
...Harold MacEwen, 34, was paroled from Stateville prison in Illinois after serving 12½ years for killing an off-duty cop during an armed robbery. "The crime itself was inexcusable," says MacEwen, who is studying for his M.A. in psychology and works for the Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...
After serving eleven years, MacEwen was given a three-day furlough. "I visited some places I thought I was familiar with, but they had changed so much that when I got out of my car, I was frightened. I couldn't stay. Then in my mother's house, I was having what I thought was a normal conversation, and it seemed like the room got smaller and smaller and I was suffocating...
...MacEwen believes that prisons should be close to home. That would give the prisoner a chance "to formulate in his own mind vivid pictures and concepts of how he will fit in when he gets out." Moreover, as long as penal institutions are in remote rural areas, they are apt to be ignored. "Out of sight, out of mind. The community should have to deal with the problem that brought about the arrest, sentence and conviction in the first place. I believe the more involved the community becomes, the less crime we will have. Volunteers who visit or teach...
...MacEwen also believes inmates must be taught to take responsibility. "A man comes home to four kids and a wife, and he's expected to be a provider. He's not been prepared during incarceration to shoulder responsibility. I don't condemn a man who's been out six months and then commits another crime. By returning to prison, he doesn't have to worry about bills being paid or whether his kids are decently clothed...