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...Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young
...Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Michael P. Harris, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Valerie J. Marchant, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young
...opening story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, with the assistance of Reporter-Researchers Val Castronovo and David Thigpen. "The change of mood is very real, although of course it is not universal," says Morrow. "One day in early fall I flew with the Reagan campaign to Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Outside the hall we could still see the protesters with angry signs. But inside there was a raucous, triumphal, almost overbearing energy. It was as if the campus rage of the '60s had been turned inside...
...work off their debts to victims. A special task force last winter proposed to the legislature that some first offenders be sentenced to perform community service, and that a sentencing standards commission be established. The measures were defeated, even formally condemned by 23 senators. Says Corrections Commissioner Thigpen: "During the debate all we heard was that we were 'soft on crime' and 'the people back home want us to get tough...
Longer punishment means more prison crowding. Between January and July, Mississippi's prison population grew at an annual pace of 44%. "If we continue to incarcerate at the same rate," says Morris Thigpen, Mississippi commissioner of corrections, "we will be constantly building new prisons. I don't think we can." Thigpen's prescription is repeated in every state, by hundreds of prison officials, judges and scholars. "We have got to look at prison space," Thigpen says, "as a scarce commodity to be used sparingly." The alternative to a Herculean (not to say Sisyphean) prison-construction jag, agrees Carlson...