Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's elderly, explained Health Commissioner Helen Bruce, "live in areas they consider dangerous, so they have nailed their windows down and keep their doors locked." During the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, St. Louis residents beat the heat by sleeping in parks or along the Mississippi river front. Today, says one police officer, "you'd have to sleep with a shotgun...
...Republican side, as of 1 a.m. Reagan had garnered 85 per cent of the vote in West Virginia, 81 per cent in New Jersey, 83 per cent in South Dakota, 75 per cent in Rhode Island, and 71 per cent in New Mexico. In the Mississippi delegate voting, Reagan won all 22 delegates...
...protest and mourning; across America high schools and colleges closed, and in cities and towns police battled those who could contain themselves no longer and in the face of violence reacted violently. Eleven days later police killed two more students and wounded a dozen at Jackson State University in Mississippi, sparking another round of protest...
...states were bad enough to be declared unconstitutional. Tennessee, Maryland, Rhode Island-these only begin the list. Suits demanding improvement have been filed in 15 other states, and with every chance of success. Court-ordered upgradings are to be welcomed and have already forced the betterment of prisons in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. But this method of progress is slow and not always effective. In most instances, too, it only raises conditions from subhuman to minimally lawful...
...vogue reform label for such plans. In the past few years they have been experimentally launched in many states, among them Oregon, Kansas, Oklahoma and Minnesota. The idea is to penalize offenders by compelling them to make restitution to their victims and the community that they have offended. Mississippi, for example, has set up four restitution centers into which thieves have been released from prisons. They pay the state a nominal $5 a day for room and board while they work to pay back the people they stole from. Success? Says State Corrections Commissioner John Watkins: "We hope ultimately that...