Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom off Philadelphia's woes, just two months ago, in a separate action, a federal consent decree mandated a reduction in the city's prison population from 4,200 to 3,750, leaving the system with fewer places to put prisoners, even if they could be brought to trial. "They're playing political games, and meanwhile we're trying to get space in prison," complains Philadelphia District Attorney Ronald Castille...
...about 20 refuseniks, mostly Soviet Jews, gathered on Arbat Street, a historic Moscow thoroughfare recently renovated into a pedestrian mall. They stood for 90 minutes with signs that read FREE YOSIF BEGUN and LET US GO TO ISRAEL. Begun, who in 1983 was sentenced to twelve years of prison and exile for publishing anti-Soviet literature, has recently been placed under "strict regime," meaning that his food rations have been reduced and his mail and visiting privileges curtailed. On the first day, police made no attempt to stop the demonstration, but onlookers argued among themselves about the merits of such...
Soviet dissidents disagreed on the significance of the mass release. Sergei Grigoryants, a literary critic who was sent to prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated...
...first word that a prisoner release was on the way came from Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, whose tiny apartment on Chkalova Street has once again become the nerve center of the human-rights movement. The Sakharovs advised Western reporters that they knew of 43 political prisoners who had suddenly been freed, in what Bonner called a "wonderful turnaround" in Kremlin policy. Soon old friends and even distant acquaintances, some newly arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station in camp clothes and close-cropped prison haircuts, came to call. When Yuri Shikhanovich arrived, Bonner sent him off with money...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie- Mellon University expected the crime rate to decline along with the number of teenagers. The tail end of the baby boom reached age 16 in 1977, and Blumstein predicted that the crime rate would top out a few years later, followed by a peak in the prison population as the younger hoods got enough convictions to land in jail. Sure enough, after 1980 the crime rate began declining on schedule, and the U.S. prison population is expected to peak around...