Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realm of presidential politics, the Massachusetts prison furlough program is a "hot button"--an emotionally stirring but largely irrelevant pseudo-issue that serves only to define a candidate's values...
Corrections policy is hardly the stuff of presidential leadership. But that hasn't stopped Vice President George Bush from making his opposition to prison furloughs a major campaign theme...
...efforts to portray Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as soft on crime, Bush has relentlessly reiterated the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison...
...Bush campaign has paid the victim's expenses as she shuttles around the country telling her story and bashing Dukakis. A Bush television commercial shows convicts walking out of prison through a turnstile, presumably to rape and pillage with the Governor's blessing...
...litany of unusually specific proposals in the Republican platform is a plank explicitly opposing prison furloughs for murderers. And in a testament to the Bush campaign's utterly shameless exploitation of the issue, media advisor Roger Ailes joked that he only had to decide whether to portray Horton in television commercials "with or without a knife in his hand...