Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, an outraged and brutalized public insisted that criminals serve longer sentences for the crimes they commit. But soon, as one might expect, prisons simply ran out of space. In Concord Prison, one of Massachusett's medium security correctional facilities, six-by-ten-foot cells that were designed to hold one inmate now have two sleeping in bunk beds. Rooms that were meant to be recreational areas or infirmaries now house 20 to 30 prisoners. Each week, the number grows...
...SOLUTION TO over-crowding in Massachusetts and elsewhere has been to cut short prison sentences. Those convicted of non-violent crimes in this state now serve only one-third of their term; two-thirds for violent cases. And Massachusetts is one of the tougher states...
...Prisons used to have two purposes. One was reform; but we know prisons don't reform prisoners, as the enormously high rate of repeat offenders attests to. If anything, inmates become better criminals in prison, learning the tricks of the trade from the pros...
Best of all, however, is the marvelous set designed by Gino Lee, who has taken the drab setting of prison granite and turned it into a three-dimensional playhouse. Like a giant pop-up book, the Tower courtyard springs from the stage and folds out to provide interior scenes. Costumes are generally adequate and occasionally impressive, but snatches of synthetic fabric detract from the Elizabethan feel, and several chorus members seem garbed in get-ups on loan from neighboring centuries...
...charge leaders of major crime families in New York City. Add to that toll the Angiulos, whose fretting about RICO was recorded in 1981, along with a lot more incriminating material. Last week, after an eight- month trial, the four brothers and an associate were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines, with Gennaro Angiulo drawing 45 years and $120,000. Using the umbrella RICO statute rather than just a series of specific offenses, said Prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, meant the jury could "see that, all the more, minor crimes are part of an overall enterprise, the business...