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To attack the basic prison problem - isolation from society the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice advocates a drastic shift to "community-based corrections." Two-thirds of all offenders are already being supervised outside the walls, on probation or parole. But probation is still widely...
There is no question that probation can be more effective than prison. In one experiment by the California Youth Authority, convicted juvenile delinquents were immediately returned to their homes or foster homes, where parole officers grouped them according to their special characteristics and then provided intensive treatment - tutoring, psychotherapy, occasional...
Crucial to such reform is a more rational definition of criminal behavior. For example, half of all county-jail inmates are in for drunkenness-something far better treated at public-health detoxification centers. In mass arrests of small drug pushers, police mainly cut supplies and raise prices, which addicts then...
A face from the past popped briefly into view as Carole Tregoff, 30, sentenced to life imprisonment seven years ago for the murder of her lover's wife, Barbara Jean Finch, was denied parole in California in her first hearing after becoming eligible. Dr. R. Bernard Finch, also serving...
Certain PBH committees, however, faced with an inability to act effectively under the limitations of the institution in which they work, are seeking to act outside of that institution. Neilther the Lyman Reform School Committee nor the Prisons Committee have the power to push for basic structural changes. Their programs...