Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs, their backers argue, allow lawbreakers to live at home, saving tax dollars while keeping families intact and off welfare. Since the detainees can get or keep jobs, part of their salaries can be paid out as fines or as compensation to victims. And alternatives give judges a sentencing option halfway between locking up offenders and turning them loose...
Alabama and a number of other states also have a similar but more restrictive option: the work-release center, a sort of halfway house where offenders must live out their sentences. The system allows them to work, often at jobs found by the local government, but maintains more of the trappings of confinement, such as dormitory life and security checks. In Indiana, where there are ten such centers, offenders do prison time first, with the hope of work release as a carrot for good behavior. That method lets the state consider, through observation and psychological testing, which inmates are likely...
SURVIVORS WERE TOLD they would receive free transit to their final destination and had the option of leaving that night if they were bound for New York City. Other passengers were put up at the Sheraton Hotel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Most of the passengers were travelling by themselves and were given single rooms...
While cable television will be available to all of Cambridge in the next six months, Harvard students may be left hanging indefinitely while the University decides whether to make cable television an option in the residential houses...
Inviting students to vote for the Brown's expulsion, the Review also gave readers the option to "force feed the student protesters with their silly cynanide pills...