Word: treating
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Building jails and prisons is big business these days. It is the product of both urgent necessity and emerging philosophy: an exploding population of convicts on the one hand and, on the other, some new theories on how to treat them. In the past decade, the war on drugs and tough mandatory-sentencing laws have helped double the number of inmates, which reached a record 1.1 million this year. To house and feed this army of incarcerated souls, states have poured $30 billion into construction in the past 10 years. This year they will spend $7 billion more, while...
...want to know what I do? Treat everybody equal. You know what I do with the Blacks? Look them in the eye when I pass them in the hall, say 'hello,' make them feel part of the system...
...long ago Doug helped design a sewage treatment plant that forgoes modern technology for more traditional means. "People aren't the only ones with sewage to treat," he told us. "Every animal out there makes some, and Nature takes care of it." Modeled on a wetlands, his plant is a series of tanks open to sunlight. The sewage flows through so slowly you can't see it move. At the front end, there are only bacteria. Farther down you can find worms, shrimp, and then fish. "When we wanted to start the plant running, we needed all the little beasties...
...said that the proposed amendment meant that the Law School intended to treat sit-ins more harshly in future, a message he said was "wholly inconsistent with any notion of precedent...
...does the country's criminal-justice system treat whites and blacks...