Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder is that we don't see more violence than we really do." Indeed, despite some isolated improvement, most prisons are still better equipped to punish prisoners than to rehabilitate them. Official prison structures remain more likely to make new criminals or harden old ones than to reform anyone. Thus the new breadth of the schools for crime is especially critical in determining how a prisoner will turn out. And if a convict's rage against imprisonment is mixed too explosively with warped philosophies of justification, the results can be frightening instances of terrorism...
...council agreed to meet with students next fall to discuss changing the CRR, sources said, but at the same time decided to stand fairly firmly against the idea of equal student-Faculty representation on the committee-the reform that students had been pushing for most strongly...
...blues singers would have put it, he was a real bad-ass man. While still a kid in California, he escaped from two reform schools seven times. At age 18 he moved on to car theft. That drew him ten months in the Ventura County jail. Next time came a 90-day sentence for raiding a scrap-metal yard...
...Oklahoma's 149 legislators are paid subscribers; Troy sends the holdouts complimentary copies). Some of his crusades have brought tangible results. His story on the "shame of Oklahoma" prompted Governor Hall to end a barbarous solitary-confinement system at the Oklahoma state penitentiary. His demands for tax reform finally helped to produce legislation that included the state's first income tax on dividends paid by Oklahoma-based corporations. At the bill-signing ceremony, Governor Hall handed Troy the pen and remarked, "This is your program." Troy's most passionate cause is education. Says he: "Everything Oklahoma hopes...
...bites those few who feed him; two utility companies, among the paper's largest accounts, pulled out after Troy editorially championed a statutory limit on the industry's advertising. He supplements his income by lecturing to civic groups and his talks are part of his crusade for reform. "You want to make a difference," he tells audiences. "Otherwise you are just taking up space...