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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgia, experts say 35% of boot-camp graduates are back in prison within three years, roughly the same rate as for those paroled from the general 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Incarceration | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...collaboration with the Khmer Rouge. Son Sann maintains links with a second guerrilla force whose disciplined units are outnumbered by troops preoccupied with smuggling and black-market trading. And the Khmer Rouge continue to inspire revulsion among a populace that remains deeply scarred by Pol Pot's reign of terror between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia Will It Ever End? | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...about 90 minutes, the groups traded chants. Coalition protestors shouted, "Mitzna, Mitzna, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?", while counter-demonstrators chanted, "Peace yes, terror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli General Sparks Protest | 10/7/1989 | See Source »

...identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...narrow, potholed road was one of the main routes used by Vietnamese forces when they invaded Cambodia in late 1978 and ended nearly four years of Khmer Rouge terror, installing a pro-Hanoi government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanoi Pulls Last Troops From Cambodia | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

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