Word: penal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endless effort to cope with one of the world's higher crime rates, the U.S. has long sent more people to prison for longer terms than any other industrialized Western nation except South Africa. Yet the country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace. Riotous prison disorders have become so common that it was only second-rate news last March when a guard was wounded and several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon...
...Classics this was no ordinary trip. Or competition. While the Classics have grown accustomed to meeting the likes of Bunker Hill Community College. Deer Island Penal Institute, and the Harvard J.V., the Cubans were, well, nothing to sneeze...
...relaxation of the penal atmosphere at Carville only occurred in the 1960s when research finally changed physicians' attitudes about the communicability of HD. Doctors now believe that a person must have a genetic susceptibility to the bacteria which causes the illness before exposure will result in infection. Although constant contact in close quarters may increase the statistical probability of eventually contracting the disease to around ten per cent, those in occasional contact run virtually no risk whatsoever...
Every time prison violence erupts, people attach a kind of mystique to it all. There is no mystery. The American penal system is traditionally unresponsive. Prisoners' grievances often go ignored until some act of violence, or even death, results. For example, overcrowding, one of the constantly reappearing ingredients that lead to violence, does not develop overnight, but is a gradual process...