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Folsom's attempts to isolate gang leaders have failed, so when violence flares, authorities have been forced increasingly to use the single blunt tool at their disposal: confinement of all prisoners to their cells. During such "lock-downs," inmates are released only for a ten-minute shower every other day, spending the rest of the time seething in their cells. After each of Folsom's recent lock-downs, inmates have emerged ornery as ever. "All the lock-downs do is buy time," says Prison Chaplain James McGee...
...Today's prison crisis represents the late-arriving bill for the law-and-order crackdown of the past decade. Public anger at crime has resulted in the wholesale warehousing of unprecedented numbers of criminals, often at great cost: about $40,000 to build a cell and $16,000 a year to keep it occupied. Despite ambitious construction programs under way in some states ($1.2 billion for 19,000 prison berths in California alone), the crush shows little sign of easing. The inmate nation swells by 73 new members a day. At this rate, a new Folsom is needed every three...
...problems in the prisons affect not only the inmates, but the whole criminal-justice system. Local jails designed to hold convicts until they are sentenced often find that when the time comes to transfer them, the prisons are full. In Michigan, 10,000 criminals have gained early release under a state law that caps the prison population. In every state, more and deadlier inmates are joining America's more than 1.5 million probationers, many of whom receive only cursory supervision...
This time Kim was warned by the police that any attempt to visit the convention could mean a prison term of up to three years. The house arrest was lifted hours after the convention ended. Even though Kim is prevented from joining the N.K.D.P., he and fellow Dissident Kim Young Sam together control a majority of party votes. In a defiant gesture aimed at South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, the N.K.D.P. named both Kims permanent advisers to the party and passed a resolution declaring that it "will do its utmost to eliminate any obstacles" to their membership. AGREEMENTS...
...tempted to trade on inside information. In a Manhattan courtroom, Federal Judge Charles Stewart last week sentenced J. Foster Winans, 37, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had been convicted of 59 counts of fraud and conspiracy, to a $5,000 fine, 18 months in prison and five years on probation...