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Faced with a federal prison population that has more than doubled nationwide in the past decade and incarceration costs that average $20,000 a person each year, judges often welcome the alternatives to imprisonment that consultants are paid to contrive. Recent efforts to loosen federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict a judge's discretion in letting convicted offenders avoid prison, could further this trend. Attorney General Janet Reno has announced she will review and possibly dispense with sentencing guidelines for minor drug offenses, and U.S. District Judge Harold Greene declared guidelines unconstitutional in a variety of cases. A change...
...involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch Society, Mothers Organized for Moral Stability and other groups. By the early '70s they had persuaded at least 20 state legislatures to either restrict or abolish sex education...
Moreover, we oppose current Harvard regulations which restrict postering to official student organizations or groups of a certain size that ask for special permission, and our standing policy is to poster for any Harvard students who do not have the administration's permission to do so in their own name...
College health service, like the anticipant new American system offer pre-payment plan that over certain types of care and exclude others. And the health service also emphasize care by general practitioners and restrict access to specialists--characteristics certain to be part of the national reforms...
...general, people inside and outside of academia agree that teachers shouldn't date students in their classes. But the University of Virginia proposal goes farther, seeking to restrict teachers from having romantic liaisons with any undergraduates...