Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the terms of her probation Wheeler must legally marry her common-law husband or return to her parents' home in North Carolina. She may not stay out overnight, enter a bar, or associate with people "of harmful character or bad reputation."
Shirley Wheeler, 23, was arraigned under the homicide section of an 1868 abortion law and was sentenced to two years probation on October 15.
He was placed on probation for participating in a sit-in at Paine Hall in December, 1968. Franklin Ford, then dean of the Faculty, cancelled a Faculty meeting scheduled there when students entered the balcony of the auditorium and refused to leave, saying they wished to watch the proceedings.
In addition, there would be the cost of providing thousands of trained psychologists, parole and probation officers, all of whom would be necessary for an effective rehabilitation effort. According to one study, only 15% of corrections employees are engaged in community programs; 80% have custodial duties. Too often, the guards...
Most black prisoners would welcome prison reforms. But for those growing numbers who are becoming intransigently ideological, reforms may seem irrelevant, even a dangerous distraction from their goal of eliminating the "racist system." After George Jackson's death at San Quentin and after Attica, penologists wonder whether any reforms...