Word: nonviolenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The circle is not only vicious, it breeds violence. As crime rates rise, state legislators react by passing stiff laws requiring longer minimum prison sentences. Result: more prisoners stay longer in prisons that are already crammed well past their planned capacity. Tensions rise as up to five inmates crowd into...
The nationwide cost of modernizing and expanding antiquated prisons, or building new ones to provide each inmate with his own cell, is estimated by the Justice Department at $10 billion. The current public attitude favors locking criminals away for as long as possible. Yet prison experts contend that the certainty...
Allen Breed, director of the National Institute of Corrections, contends that courts have been both too lenient with violent criminals, who tend to repeat their offenses, and too harsh on all the others. Breed argues that many of these nonviolent convicts should be living in halfway houses and serving in...
In a gesture reminiscent of the Iranian hostage crisis, people throughout the nation are starting to wear ribbons of various colors as a symbol of their concern for Atlanta's children. In Cincinnati, for example, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus is urging citizens to wear green...
A turning point came at Guernica, the Basques' spiritual center. Thirty members of the militant Herri Batasuna Party loudly cut off the King's address with an old Basque fighting song. It took security guards ten minutes to subdue the demonstrators in an unseemly scene that was carried...