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No one likes to admit that he can’t trust his gut, and Harvard students don’t like it any better than most. I don’t like it either, but whenever I’m feeling perceptive—especially during shopping weekâ?...
In the late 1920s, Burgess wondered how to predict whether paroled criminals would strike again. To find out, he followed 3,000 Illinois inmates as they left prison, drawing up a list of 21 features that made prisoners likely to violate their parole (age, number of crimes, nature of crimes...
The Emergency Motion for the Stay of Extradition reads in part: "In an effort to prevent General Noriega's lawyers from obtaining the evidence necessary to prove this claim, as well as further litigating his rights under the Geneva Convention, the United States intends to release General Noriega from the...
...most violent convicts, everyone who is released is automatically put on parole supervision. Illinois made a major commitment to reform in 2002 and has stayed the course. [Early results indicate that Illinois officials are succeeding in lowering re-incarceration rates, raising participation in drug treatment programs and increasing parolee employment.] I look at the progress there and see how far behind we are and where we could...
What other solutions do you favor? We need three things: sentencing reform, better prison rehabilitation programming, and parole reform. Part of our problem is structural. Under our current sentencing law, we can send people back to prison for technical parole infractions. [Some other states only order jail time or community...