Word: penalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse is to come, she predicts. The current penal-reformist notion of group therapy may be "withering on the vine," but the behaviorists are about to bloom. A $13.5 million Behavioral Research Center is due to open near Butner, N.C., early in 1974. Articles with triumphant titles like "Criminals Can Be Brain washed−Now&" are appearing. In the spirit of 1984, solitary confinement is referred to by some prisons as "the Adjustment Center," and ordinary cells are called "Behavior Modification Units." Beating is known as "Aversion Therapy." Upjohn and Parke-Davis maintain $500,000 worth of laboratories with...
...What I'm doing to animation," he proclaims, "is the same thing young film makers are doing to regular movies-cutting down budgets and gaining freedom that allows me to make the pictures I like. I want to do bang-out comedy. I also want to do The Penal Colony...
...Erika and a pimp named Helga. For two hard-working years, they saved money to go into business as antique dealers. Then Helga ran off with the money. Heartbroken-and furious-Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already used Erika's earnings to open an antique shop...
Their deaths last December were violent evidence of a serious new form of prison unrest. They did not die in an ordinary penitentiary riot, but in a full-scale street-gang rumble, transported virtually intact from the Chicago slums into the prison. Gang activity now plagues penal systems not only in Illinois but in California, New Jersey and New York, among others. Indeed, nearly every prison that draws inmates from large urban areas these days must deal with gangs operating behind bars...
...sentencing be done not by judges but by officials more closely familiar with prisoners, for instance parole authorities. Indeed California and a few other states have adopted a so-called "indeterminate sentencing" policy under which an offender stays in jail for as long or as short a time as penal officials think necessary for rehabilitation. Frankel thinks that this much-touted liberal reform amounts merely to passing the power of abuse along. Besides, he notes, the hard truth is that there is no successful prison rehabilitation to speak...