Word: penalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sargent is running on his record, and making no promises about the future. He says he has improved mass transit, liberalized penal institutions and increased care for the elderly...
Commuting Convicts. Despite its growing acceptance, the mixing of sexes in penal facilities is still considered experimental by correction authorities. Making life more pleasant for prisoners is only a side effect. The principal goal is to increase the chance that a prison sentence will reform a criminal rather than alienate him further from society. Explains Robert Vagt, deputy commissioner of community services in Massachusetts: "Our whole thrust is to get incarcerated people into a more normal environment. If it's not coed, then we're preparing them for a situation that they are not going to meet...
Though it is too early to judge conclusively, penal experts believe that coed incarceration is a success-at least in improving behavior. Warden Charles Campbell of the Fort Worth prison, which has been coed for nearly three years, reports that "we have not had a drug overdose or the kind of fights characteristic of serious drug trafficking. In fact, we've had little of the violence commonplace in more rigid prisons...
...glorified. Mill understood that human nature was so far from naturally good that the ultimate object of education should be "restraining discipline." The man to whom conformity, obedience and even law were dirty words could demand, in another mood, the retention of capital punishment and call for a penal code "strengthening our punishments" rather than "weakening them...
...Revolution and peasants caught up in collectivization right down to whole divisions of Red Army soldiers captured by the Germans in World War II and then returned to the U.S.S.R. All these, from 1918 to 1953, flowed through the ports and channels of the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet penal state-within-a-state whose myriad prisons, interrogation centers and slave-labor camps stretched from Leningrad to Komsomolsk and variously engulfed some 60 million souls. Gulag also makes clear that Soviet justice evolved in a straight line from Lenin's suggestion that the judiciary be allowed to legalize terror into...