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...veteran of Ohio prisons, I read your special section with interest and skepticism. Prisons are for punishment: to give society the retribution it is due. But punishment should be handed out fairly. When an inmate sees police, judges and politicians, the same people who draft and enforce laws, receiving wrist slaps for conduct that landed him in the slammer for years, the lesson of sure and swift punishment is lost...
...expectations; that, he says, will help. Yet his resolution continues to be undermined by his temper. Even now he is on disciplinary report for raising a hand to a guard. He demonstrates the gesture as if to denote its casual innocence, but in fact a flick of his wrist is menacing. "I will always be in prison," he says after a while. "It was something stamped on my soul...
...improved "American" has produced only headaches. Local police are often loath to arrest growers, especially when communities are dependent on pot income. Some even tip off planters to impending law-enforcement raids. In many states, the penalties meted out for growing grass often amount to little more than a wrist slap anyway. Even with stiffer sentencing, enforcement would remain difficult. Growers have become adept at hiding pot patches from airborne police. One farmer in Kentucky is growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops...
...chases women in Manhattan bars, has his own patented method of checking for herpes. When the chitchat has moved far enough along that the woman is peering his way with bedroom eyes, he caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least...
...When Reagan approved, the N.S.C. decided to defer the formal notification to Congress of U.S. intentions to sell 75 F-16 fighters to Israel. But the slowdown, which has no time limit, will have little impact, since the aircraft are not to be delivered until 1985. To ease the wrist tap even further, the announcement of the deferral was made quietly...