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The Faculty endowed the CRR with tribunal-like powers; and permission to use hearsay evidence, to appeals of convictions, and the right to hand down any type of sentence. This includes anything from a formal warning to probation to--with the Faculty's approval--expulsion from Harvard.
In San Antonio a sheriff's lieutenant was just sentenced to two years' probation for repeatedly zapping a handcuffed suspect last summer. In April in Dallas, another worry of stun-gun critics became reality when a pair of robbers used one to disable a clerk in a Safeway supermarket. In...
Officials have said the students face discipline ranging from probation to expulsion.
There are several standard answers. The first says we must protect ourselves by removing dangerous individuals from circulation. This argument is sound, so long as we only look up people convicted of violent crimes whose individual cases indicate that they can not be rehabilitated or controlled through halfway houses, probation...
There are some simple and practical alternatives to the current emphasis imprisonment. Only there convicted of violent crimes should even be considered for imprisonment. Others can be fined, sentenced on probation or terms of public service (as John Zaccaro recently was), or sent to halfway houses or part-time center...