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...shoes and jeans -- a few with service revolvers in ankle holsters -- hunch against tables piled with books. Some affect a jaunty air, but most wear the look of the condemned. These are New York City police officers battling through a seven-hour cram session that covers everything from the penal code to traffic regulations. They are preparing for exams to determine who will be promoted and who will...
...describes has scarcely been tempered by the reformist policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. If the General Secretary is serious about extending glasnost and perestroika to all Soviet society, he will see to the publication of Fear No Evil at home. That would be a powerful impetus for restructuring the inhuman penal system he inherited from his predecessors...
...FATAL SHORE by Robert Hughes. An indefatigably researched and uncompromising history of Australia that lays bare that nation's buried origins as a penal colony. Hughes is the art critic of TIME...
...drama inside a drama, set in an institution and authenticated by history, provided Marat/Sade with its power. Some 20 years later, Australian Novelist Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) attempts the same tour de force with a fictive account of an incident in 1789, when his native land was a penal colony. There, a troupe of convicts acted in George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer, under the supervision of their frowning keepers. The opportunities for irony are omnipresent: male and female prisoners, known as lags and she-lags, are liberated into their parts, while ! guards are locked inside their roles...
Lawson ran into trouble in San Diego, where, as an "avid pedestrian," he was stopped repeatedly for vagrancy on his midnight walks, prosecuted twice and convicted once under a provision of the state's penal code that required him to produce "credible and reliable" identification for any police officer who had reason to be suspicious. Lawson saw the matter simply: he was black, his looks were not conventional, and he was treading white sidewalks. His suit called the law unconstitutionally vague and said it violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" and the Fifth Amendment...