Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lane and Garry stayed behind at Jonestown, knowing that the aircraft would be overcrowded. They expected to be picked up the next day.
No violations were found in the spotchecks, but Celluci said floor plans and room measurements are needed to determine whether the dorms are indeed overcrowded. "I'm not going to commit myself until I see the facts and figures," he said.
A city building official has inspected two Harvard dormitories and the University is gathering room measurements as part of an investigation to see if eight dormitories are overcrowded beyond the limits allowed by state law.
Silberman goes on to puncture the rightist dogma of severe punishment and electrocution enthusiasm. Certainty of punishment, not severity, deters crime; overcrowded, bestially violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional...
No evidence exists that longer prison terms or fixed mandatory sentences will deter crime, says Silberman. The real problem with the court system is not that it works badly but that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?...