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...when France abolished slavery, the oldest of its colonies found itself in desperate need of cheap labor. Since the next best thing to a black slave was a white convict, the Islands of Salvation became a part of the most notorious penal colony in the world. Over the next century, 70,000 Frenchmen were to learn what it meant to be sentenced to the "dry guillotine," but not more than 2,000 lived long enough to get back to France...
...year since the legislature first met, thousands of state salaries have been increased, some by as much as 35%. But there have been no new general taxes. The state has taken over control of fisheries, courts and penal institutions, and bothersome bureaucratic bugs have been ironed out. But a glimpse of the financial forecast for Alaska was as sobering as a plunge in the Bering...
Cultural Exchange. In Memphis, prison officials at Shelby County Penal Farm grew suspicious of mountains of mail coming to the prison, discovered that some of the inmates were ordering their free bonuses from various book and record clubs and selling them to other prisoners...
...Each of these original studies uncovered facts that were more and more disturbing to more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...