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For all the troubles of the police and the courts, the prison and parole system seems to be in even deeper difficulty. "The most striking fact about the correctional apparatus today," says the commission, "is that, although the rehabilitation of criminals is presumably its major purpose, the custody of criminals...
Most urgently needed is a quick and major increase in the number of parole and probation officers. Many officers carry a work load of over 100 cases each. The average, says the commission, should be 35 cases per officer.
In other cases, economic, social and legal problems combine to form a "poverty syndrome." One student assistant arranged for the probation under his supervision of two parents accused of child neglect, helped them to arrange their debt problems, and subsequently to obtain hospital care. "Most of us no longer make...
Dribs & Drabs. The sentence was surprising-both in its severity and in its source. Although conference rules forbid any financial assistance to athletes beyond board, room, tuition and fees, slush funds are nothing new in the Big Ten: at least one of the athletic directors who sat in judgment on...
The $21,000 involved was dispensed mainly in dribs and drabs: $9.18 to pay for a recruited athlete's motel room, $2.11 for another to make an emergency phone call. Some of the money was budgeted for Illinois scouts' traveling expenses. One football player received a total of...