Word: penalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paroled in 1967, he was put into Vacaville the next year to receive psychiatric treatment. Once again paroled in January 1969, he was arrested ten months later, convicted of attacking a police officer in Los Angeles, and sentenced to six months to ten years. He was in several state penal institutions...
...most ominous sign of the new repression is the reopening of the ancient prison on Yiaros, a bleak Aegean island 75 miles from Athens that has been used as a penal colony since Roman days. The island is legendary for its monstrous rats and vipers and a unique torture: jailers tossing a naked prisoner into a sack with a frightened cat and then dumping them into the chilly waters of the Aegean. Many a Greek has borne the scars produced by that experience. The hundred prisoners now held on the island are a mixed lot of political dissidents, including former...
...readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize Macaulay's revision of the Indian penal code? And then, after half a thousand pages, Macaulay's masterpiece plus 20 years of his life still lie ahead-for this is only the first volume from an academic biographer who knows everything and tells all, not ungracefully but sometimes twice...
...issue with conditional amnesty as embodied, for example, in a bill proposed by Republican Senator Robert Taft that would grant amnesty to draft evaders who agree to serve two years in either the armed forces or a civilian service like VISTA. "Such a practice would equate military service with penal servitude," said Benade, "and this is contrary to the history and tradition of our country, which holds military service to be a citizen's duty and privilege...
...levels of privileges. A higher level could be reached only after a prisoner's minutely monitored behavior at the preceding level passed muster. The prisoners' suit claimed unconstitutional violations of due process and privacy, among other allegations. Last month, after court-appointed investigators filed unfavorable reports, U.S. penal authorities finally caved in. The remaining START prisoners were transferred to other institutions last week. In December, the A.C.L.U. also won a court order ending parts of a federal program at Marion, Ill., that prisoners called "psychogenocide" because of its acknowledged goal of breaking troublesome inmates with psychological techniques...