Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impress people that I was some kind of big crook. I'd say, hey, I can't do anything without my boys. I gotta hustle. Now, I know that ain't nothing. I was just making my life shorter and shorter."--Norm, a 16-year-old participant in the Reach-Out Juvenile Counseling Program at Walpole...
...relatives out there, most know ex-cons, all are familiar with the often romanticized lore that comes out of such places. Few, however, actually visited the prison before some inmates got together in 1975 and formed, independent of the prison administration and outside groups, a counseling program designed to reach youthful offenders through those who knew about prison life--the prisoners themselves...
...Reach-Out, as the program is called, is an attempt to do for juvenile crime what Alcoholics Anonymous does for heavy drinking. The inmates' advice lacks the moralistic admonitions of the parents, judges and probation officers ignored by the kids. It is, indeed, an implicit message of the consequences of crime, brought home by those who alone in society are capable of commanding the respect of others who may be headed in the same direction...
...metal doors. Past the place where visitors have the insides of their shoes checked for contraband, past the detectors, the armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy--inmates are officially called "residents...
...press reports he had scanned. And Benjamin Civiletti, the head of the Criminal Division in Justice, who figured prominently in the negotiations with Helms and his attorney, disclosed that, in yet another unorthodox step, Justice had actually initiated the backroom talks with the former CIA chief, hoping to reach the very arrangement they announced last week...