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...Incarceration" is a favorite word among gun lovers, particularly those with impatience for "soft" modern penal reform and a fondness for mandatory sentencing of criminals who break current gun laws...
...hadn't been plagued by obscenity convictions. Perhaps his popularity, like that of so many other entertainers, would have dwindled, leaving him in obscurity. But Lenny was a fairly capable writer, and might have made a living even after the stage doors were closed to him, advocating penal and drug law reform. Whether it was the law that "killed" Lenny, as current books and articles claim, or his own inability to find a substitute for show business, his unfair conviction remains our responsibility, and something we deserve to feel ashamed about...
Sargent is running on his record, and making no promises about the future. He says he has improved mass transit, liberalized penal institutions and increased care for the elderly...
Voters in Middlesex County, which includes all of Cambridge face a clear choice for Sheriff in Tuesday's election. Republican incumbent John J. Buckley has been a progressive and independent public servant. Buckley has instituted a series of impressive reforms in the County's penal system, including conjugal visits, inmate furloughs, and vocational training...
Though it is too early to judge conclusively, penal experts believe that coed incarceration is a success-at least in improving behavior. Warden Charles Campbell of the Fort Worth prison, which has been coed for nearly three years, reports that "we have not had a drug overdose or the kind of fights characteristic of serious drug trafficking. In fact, we've had little of the violence commonplace in more rigid prisons...