Word: penalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAIGON. Feb. 9-An American firm is ?he ?? to begin construction this month of three new blocks of isolation cells on the penal island of Con Son. Each of the three blocks will contain ?? ?ells. The new construction will allow Con Son officials to drastically increase the number of prisoners held under "tiger cage" conditions, one American who is familiar with the project claims...
...there is any deficiency in our penal system it is that too few criminals are locked up and that when they are imprisoned, they are treated with far too much consideration for the confinement to be a punishment...
Pity it did not come through the church, which carries the stigma of spawning the macabre teratism we call penitentiaries. If this is to be the decade for penal reform, may God grant that the church will not arrive on the scene "too late, with too little, and all out of breath." After all, it is of no small significance that Jesus Christ defined one criterion of judgment with crystal-clear simplicity: "I was in prison and you did not visit...
...publicity moved the state to do a little fixing. Gun-toting trusties lost some power, 60 more free-world staffers arrived, $450,000 was allotted to replace some men and mules with farm machinery. Robert Sarver, head of the Arkansas penal system, is pushing hard for improvement against stiff odds. But Cummins still lacks any schooling, counseling or job training. For a college-trained social worker, the state pays only $593 a month; Cummins can barely attract civilian guards ($330). Says Sarver: "We can't guarantee a man's safety...
CALIFORNIA. Though it leads all states in systematic penology, California has the nation's highest crime rate. Critics also claim that the system is characterized by a kind of penal paternalism that becomes psychological torment. In a much touted reform, California judges give indeterminate sentences; corrections officials then determine each offender's fate according to his presumably well-tested behavior. Thus 66% of all convicted offenders get probation, 6% work in 20-man forestry crews, and only 13.5% of felons go to prison. Despite rising crime, California's prison population (26,500) has actually dropped...