Word: framingham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman is an inmate at Framingham Woman's Penitentiary. Kiley is one of 40 Harvard students who regularly make trips to counsel inmates there...
Because PBH makes a policy of conducting its correctional programs separately, the 40 students on the prisons committee do not rotaic among the four prisons. Groups of volunteers generally stay with one prison for an entire semester. At the Framingham Women's Prison, the volunteers go out just to talk with the inmates or organize activities for them. They have debated gun control, simulated the popular game, Family Feud, and made Valentine's Day cards...
While state law entitles prisoners to legal counsel in institutional proceedings, the state is not required to provide attorneys as in criminal trials. Unable to pay for professional lawyers on their own prisoners at MCI-Concord. Norfolk, Framingham, and Walpole prisons call the program collect to request its assistance...
...last week issued a statement urging people to stick with the more rigorous 1959 guidelines. "The more you weigh, the more heart attack, heart failure and even stroke in some groups," said Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the well-known major study of heart disease under way in Framingham, Mass. "The fact that fatter people are living longer may merely reflect the growing success of medical intervention in weight-related ailments," said Dr. Virgil Brown, chairman of the A.H.A. nutrition committee...
Several doctors point out that the weight charts are skewed by one key factor: smoking. As a group, smokers weigh less than average and die at an earlier age. Including them in the study thus tended to push the optimal weights higher. When the Framingham group examined the longevity of thin men who do not smoke, says Castelli, it found "the lowest overall death rate and the best health experiences" of any population...