Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genes and our environment control our destinies. The idea of conscious choice is ridiculous. Yes, prisons should be designed to protect society, but they should not punish the poor slobs who were headed for jail from birth...
...conservative Republican, I take exception to your statement that any retreat by Reagan from his opposition to the Soviet pipeline "would upset his conservative supporters." The President's attempts to punish the Soviet Union won't work [Sept. 13]. The people being punished are our allies and our domestic industries, which will lose sales to those foreign businesses that refuse to play our silly game. U.S. Trade Representative William Brock is right. It is time to establish with the NATO countries some long-range policy that won't change every four years with the whim...
Even U.S. prisons were supposed to be part of the New World's promised land. The first American prisons would not merely punish inmates, but transform them from idlers and hooligans into good, industrious citizens. In 1790 a group of Philadelphia Quakers, brimming with revolutionary optimism, began the experiment in a renovated downtown jail. They were bent on "such degrees and modes of punishment . . . as may . . . become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness." No other country was so seduced for so long by that ambitious charter. The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when...
...Punish criminals by putting them in prison? It is simple only to say. Which criminals? For how long? In what kind of prison...
...prison will punish. Some people fear that prisons are now too cushy, so spiffed up that chastisement is nullified. But the "country club prison" is as unreal as the prison cum treatment center. A plain deprivation of freedom?the average prisoner serves two years or so?is quite severe all by itself. Conjugal visits between inmates and spouses, the innovation so often cited as alarmingly humane, are permitted in only nine states. More typical of prison permissiveness is allowing Playboy pinups in cells and unlimited seconds on Wonder bread in the chow lines...