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...often after his release sought revenge on society for his incarceration. The penal reformers also pointed out that the convict's bitterness was compounded by the corrupt manner in which inmates with pull on the outside could obtain pardons from governors--then the only mechanism of premature release--while poorer cons had to serve their full sentences...
...steadily unequal over the past 20 years. According to a February, 1971 Trans-Action magazine article, "About 75 to 80 per cent of the people of Pakistan are now no better off than they were 20 years ago, and something like 15 to 20 per cent may actually be poorer in real terms...
While it is still considerably poorer than Walden Two, Twin Oaks has gone farther toward the goal of behavioral control than might have seemed reasonably possible. It is too soon, however, to call the commune much more than a fascinating experiment...
...class parents of school-age children have fled the cities to inviting suburbs, to take advantage of their superior school systems. They were better because the property was richer there, and the property taxes that support most school systems produced more money for better buildings, better teachers, better facilities. Poorer districts in the cities simply could not compete. Incomes were lower, property values were lower and there were far more kids crowded into far less space. Even if tax rates were raised to the limit, the resulting income could not provide anything but minimal schooling...
...Jews. It is most notorious for its harassment of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. (TIME, May 24). Kahane is currently out on five-year probation after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to manufacture explosives. The camp is part of the league's program-originated in the poorer Jewish neighborhoods of New York City -to teach Jewish youths the fundamentals of self-defense at a time when threats to life and property seem to be ominously mounting...