Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same except that, because of the excessive damage, each family should get 20 iron sheets. Elsewhere, each family was due $41.50, ten sheets, ten bags of cement. Thieu reported that the refugee rolls had already been reduced from the initial 700,000 created by Tet to 405,000. > REFORM. Thieu announced that he intends to create two advisory bodies to his government, made up of leading Vietnamese: a National Planning Council and a Committee for Administrative Reforms to overhaul the creaking Saigon bureaucracy. Though he did not say so in his TV speech, Thieu also intends to continue replacing corrupt...
What are prisons for? To reform criminals, replied of the 77% of nation's Americans in "correctional" a recent Harris Poll. But 80% of the nation's " correctional;" employees merely guard 426,000 inmates in a hodgepodge of archaic institutions that range from adequate to appalling. Only 20% of the coun try's correctors work at rehabilitation. And 30% of all released offenders (75% in some areas) are reimprisofied within five years, often for worse crimes...
Barriers to Reform...
...caging syndrome has crippled U.S. penology in every way. Because forbidding forts refuse to crumble (25 prisons are more than 100 years old), there is often no way to separate tractable from intractable men-the preliminary step toward rehabilitation. Of course barriers to reform go far beyond the limitations of buildings. It is ironic that only in Mississippi are married convicts allowed conjugal visits with their wives; sexual deprivation in other American prisons incites riots, mental illness and homosexuality. By using strong inmates to control the weak, authoritarian officials create an inmate culture that forces prisoners to "do your...
Crucial to such reform is a more rational definition of criminal behavior. For example, half of all county-jail inmates are in for drunkenness-something far better treated at public-health detoxification centers. In mass arrests of small drug pushers, police mainly cut supplies and raise prices, which addicts then meet by more thefts and burglaries. In New York City, the daily toll is almost $1,000,000, and addicts account for half the city's convicts. Not only are big suppliers untouched; a national trend to mandatory sentences and no parole or probation in drug cases is defeating...