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BORN: April 15, 1946, Rahway, N.J. EDUCATION: Wesley College, A.A., 1971; Delaware State U, B.A., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Barbara; three children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Marines, 1964-68 OCCUPATION: Teacher POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 644, Townsend Building, Chestertown...
George, who is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder, is president of Lifers' Group Inc., headquartered behind four security doors in the gloomy Victorian fortress in Rahway, N.J. Its 54 members are serving sentences of at least 25 years for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. While fellow inmates pump iron, watch TV or gossip in their cells, these jailhouse Rockefellers volunteer their time to help the world outside. "I figured out early on that there were only two things I could work out here," says George, 45. "My health and my mind...
...Rahway is just one pocket of prison philanthropy. Across the country, inmates find ways, big and small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates...
Major pharmaceutical firms like Merck & Co. of Rahway, N.J., and Bristol- Myers Squibb of New York City are keeping a low profile in the pricing debate. The corporate rebuttal is that drug firms are honestly struggling to contain their spiraling costs and turn a profit in a formidably complex and competitive industry. Research and development costs, the key to corporate success in the drug industry, have lofted from an average of $55 million for each new medication in the 1970s to $125 million today. Regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can take up to seven years...
...prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation" in 1965, sentencing first offenders to the penitentiary for 90 days. The disastrous results were indolence, sodomy and violence. ) Prisoners at the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway played real-life roles in which they confronted juvenile offenders on probation to demonstrate the violence behind the walls. Subsequent studies by Rutgers University showed that the 1978 film Scared Straight frightened the lesser punks into proper living, but the more sophisticated toughs came to view the inmates as role...