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...getting and spending. Thus, if society was responsible, its victims should be isolated from corrupting influences and drilled in the virtues of hard work and obedience. Keeping inmates untainted meant keeping them apart from one another as well as from society as a whole. Accordingly, under Pennsylvania's penal system, prisoners not only worked alone, but each new convict was kept hooded until safely in his own cell. Walls and air vents were often designed to prevent communication, and prison architecture was elevated to one of the "moral sciences...
...editorial content-typically, unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break the law." But retreat hardly meant repentance. "We will still accept personal...
...Laos comes at the same time that the government of South Vietnam has delayed, from February to March or even later, invitations to petroleum companies to bid on offshore oil concessions. These concessions are located in the Gulf of Thailand and the south-east offshore region adjacent to the penal colony of Con Son. The Thien-Ky government has not yet determined if it will offer all 18 offshore leases in a block or whether it will stretch out the leasing over a period of months to the 21 contending companies, which are mostly American...
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...