Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prisons Committee of Phillips Brooks House is revamping its program to attack what a member says "we really should care about" -- the fact that over 80 per cent of parolees eventually return to prison...
...Expanded prison furlough programs to permit prisoners to keep up family ties or hold part-time jobs outside. -1mproved prison industries to increase prisoners' vocational aptitudes. -1ntegration of local jails into state correctional systems...
Even those who do end up in prison should get far different treatment from that handed out to most of the 426,000 who are now serving time. Too many prisons are grey, forbidding fortresses; some are 100 years old or more. And too many emphasize punishment, to the detriment of rehabilitation. The commission suggests that new prisons should be kept as small as possible. They should have a residential air, and be located near cities and universities, where cooperation with industry and academicians could be easily arranged. At the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn., the Dictograph Corp. sponsors...
...commissioners are convinced that many more inmates should be paroled. For prison experience unquestionably boosts the chance that an offender will break the law again. In one experiment, conducted by the California Youth Authority, a group of convicted juvenile delinquents were given immediate parole and returned to their homes or foster homes, where they got intensive care from community parole officers. After five years, only 28% of this experimental group have had their paroles revoked, compared to 52% of a comparable group that was locked up after conviction...
Divorced. George Blake, 44, British diplomat turned Soviet spy, who triggered a national prison-security scandal last October when he sawed his way out of London's Wormwood Scrubbs, where he was serving a 42-year sentence, and presumably fled the country; by Gillian Blake, 33; on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in London...