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So far, the sentences for those convicted have been light. As Judge Gerhard Gesell explained in putting North on probation, "You were a low-ranking subordinate working to carry out initiatives of a few cynical superiors." North had only three major bosses. Robert McFarlane, who preceded Poindexter as National Security...
I will grant the plan is harsh, since the penalty for getting caught is stiff. But jail time is a small sacrifice for a bona-fide women's center. When released on probation, we will return to Harvard to use the women's center. In the worst scenario, martyrdom will...
Civil rights activists and social scientists have long warned that poor education, drug abuse, high crime rates and widespread violence have made young black men an endangered species. Last week a report issued by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based organization that promotes research on criminal justice, found that approximately...
With prison populations -- and prison costs -- inexorably rising, states are experimenting with ways to punish criminals without punishing taxpayers. As alternatives to high-cost imprisonment, at least 40 states now offer "intermediate sanctions." Most are forms of closely supervised probation available only to nonviolent offenders. Some allow probationers to hold jobs while they serve time in dormitory-style halfway houses where they are subject to tight curfews and periodic drug and alcohol tests. Others keep tabs on them at home through frequent visits from probation officers or through electronic ! shackles that signal authorities when the wearer attempts...
But the high hopes once held for such programs have been tempered. In many cases they merely apply closer supervision to nonviolent offenders who would be on conventional probation anyway; prisons have long reserved most of their cell space for violent criminals. The alternatives can be expensive. New Mexico spent...