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While McCann estimates that he spends the large majority of his time working on individual problems, he takes pride in the fact that he has passed strong gun control and penal reform legislation...
McCann's major effort in the area of penal reform has been to gain passage of a bill that would set up a separate facility for prisoners with no prior convictions. "Given the state of our prisoners now, it makes no sense to throw the first offenders in with hardened criminals. I've been working since 1966 to get the state to set up a special institution for first time offenders...
...standard view on reduction of taxes. Opert raises some issues which mark him as an attorney. He would campaign for such causes as a legislative review of the performance of Massachusetts judges, preferential treatment to the disadvantaged in the giving of state and municipal jobs, effective prisoner rehabilitation and penal reform programs, and the adoption of irreconcilable difference as an additional ground for divorce in Massachusetts...
...Commons, Heath firmly stood by the Industrial Relations Act. Some Laborites tried to canonize the Pentonville Five by comparing them to the Tolpuddle Martyrs-six laborers who were sent to a penal colony in 1834 for organizing a trade union. Labor Party Chief Harold Wilson, who led the attack on Heath in Commons, scourged Tory labor policy as "inept and malevolent." He ignored the fact that as Prime Minister in 1969 he had not only pressed unsuccessfully for similar reforms but also called them "essential...
...late 18th century, Australia was a British penal colony. Nowadays, to hear Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew tell it, the place is not a bad reform school. Lee has been dealing with budding campus revolutionaries in his tight little island nation by packing them off with scholarships to universities in affluent industrial democracies like Australia. "What you want to do is disperse them and open them up to new ideas," Lee says enthusiastically. Results? "They've come back fairly middle class and comfortable, although still armchair critics...