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...city's courts and prisons were swamped. At Beame's urging, prosecutors refused to plea bargain with suspected looters and arsonists or agree to release them without bail. As a result, police station houses and courthouse holding pens were jammed with prisoners???up to ten in small cells designed to hold one person...
...approach is the so-called Just Community in Niantic, Conn. Parole is granted only after a pre-determined sentence is served, and there is no connection between getting out and participating in the educational and other-special rehabilitative programs that are offered. The main effort is to get the prisoners???both men and women?to participate in running the prison and to learn to be responsible for their own action. All decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones who have to decide what to do about...
...weeks it was kept quiet, because it was feared that publicity might be hampering. Last week it was officially announced. The President had picked a board to investigate the vexing question of the 31 so-called political prisoners???chiefly I.W.W.'s convicted in Federal penitentiaries under War-time laws...
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