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...report notes that the American prison population has doubled in the past decade -- even though the overall crime rate has declined 3.5%. It cites mandatory sentencing laws in 46 states and tougher federal drug laws as the main reasons. Despite $16 billion a year spent on prisoners, claims Marc Mauer, the project's assistant director, "the same policies that have helped make us a world leader in incarceration have failed to make us a safer nation...
Only 436,000 black males in the same age group are enrolled in college or any other form of higher education. Warns Marc Mauer, the study's author: "We now risk the possibility of writing off an entire generation of black men from leading productive lives...
...Reporter Richard Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News joined with Computer Wizard and Free-Lance Reporter Larry Makinson to trace campaign contributions given to local officials. They uncovered a nest of questionable schemes, including one to funnel 20 seemingly independent $1,000 contributions to a single state senator in one day. "Without the computer," says Makinson, "this information would have remained buried like a treasure chest at the bottom...
This week Bernstein and the Milwaukee Journal as well as Makinson and Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News are being recognized for their high-tech digging ! with awards from an association called Investigative Reporters & Editors, with headquarters at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Says I.R.E. Executive Director Steve Weinberg: "The computer is revolutionizing investigative reporting. There's just no way you could do some of those calculations by hand...
Programs similar to PBH have sprung up at Princeton. Yale, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania, among others, but none of the other programs is as old as Harvard's. "We're a fledgling organization," says Judith K. Mauer, director of UPenn's Student Volunteer Center," and we used PBH as a model...