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Surveillance of a parolee is a fundamental penal concept, but it is questionable whether the implantation of a 1984 device would help keep a 1972 ex-prisoner under control...
...sentence for reasons of health. After doctors testified that he was in danger of losing his eyesight, the judges granted an eight-month remission of the prison term. Mangakis, after all, was no ordinary convict: a German-educated Greek university professor, he is regarded as a world authority on penal...
...Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne by his Calvinist successor, William of Orange. In succeeding years, the Penal Laws further restricted the Catholics' right to education, administrative posts and land ownership...
These questions and others are considered in Nat. Sci. 26. Students usually undertake an independent field or library project of interest to them. Several guest lectures are presented, in addition to topics ranging from the effects of smoking to the use of science in penal institutions. The overlay of the specific with the general made the course even more rewarding. Some students who took the course last year were therefore disturbed by these comments in the Confi Guide...
...cons would pound their tin cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then, San Quentin compensated for its miseries by being fairly easy to escape from. Sometimes 60 or 70 prisoners...