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...with its drug-withdrawal and methadone-maintenance programs (estimated savings: $18 million a year); the city department of corrections, which also duplicates state penal facilities (savings: $92 million); the municipal broadcasting system, which provides quality material but must be considered a luxury at the present time (savings: $2.4 million); vocational counseling and job placement, which is ineffective and overlaps state services (total savings: $57 million); the board of examiners, which certifies teachers already certified by the state department of education (savings: $3 million...
...rape of males in prison is also used by Brownmiller to help advance her thesis: rape is primarily an act of power, not of sex. Most penal experts agree that rape is part of the system of establishing the power structure in many jails; a prisoner will either rape or be raped. Sodomy is so important to prison society, Brownmiller says, that even if prisoners were allowed sex with visiting wives or girl friends, homosexual rape would continue...
MacEwen believes that prisons should be close to home. That would give the prisoner a chance "to formulate in his own mind vivid pictures and concepts of how he will fit in when he gets out." Moreover, as long as penal institutions are in remote rural areas, they are apt to be ignored. "Out of sight, out of mind. The community should have to deal with the problem that brought about the arrest, sentence and conviction in the first place. I believe the more involved the community becomes, the less crime we will have. Volunteers who visit or teach...
...This time around, he is charged with defamation of the Soviet Union and other friendly countries and of their leaders and with 'corrupting the morale and the military and political preparedness of soldiers (articles 100 and 288 of the Czechoslovak Penal Code). Each count carries the maximum penalty of three years in prison. Given the present conditions in Czechoslovakia, there is no doubt that Dejmal will be found guilty. The verdict, the sentence, and even the type of prison conditions are usually determined in advance; the authorities will easily find as many witnesses as necessary...
...mayor, but by then Inman had become too entrenched a figure to be removed. Instead, Jackson made an appointment to a new charter-created post above police chief-commissioner of public safety. He chose an old college chum, Reginald Eaves, a black who had served as Boston's penal commissioner...