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A SECOND CHANCE Forty-six states and the District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment...
DIED. JAMES FARMER, 79, courageous, booming-voiced Gandhian who along with Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit...
Other states are following Pennsylvania's lead in building penal facilities for the aged. But just how much sense does it make for society to keep these mostly nonviolent, broken old men incarcerated? With the U.S. prison population soaring (to a record 1.8 million last year), Florida and California are...
POPS, an innovative program that represents elderly inmates at their parole hearings and helps find a place in the community for nonviolent geriatric inmates, has helped 200 prisoners 55 and over win parole. Half were released to the custody of relatives. Others were accepted into halfway-house programs and church...
SDS had six demands, but the most important andmost widely supported was the first: that theUniversity abolish ROTC immediately. To manystudents, Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corpswas the most egregious of the University's ties tothe military. The students inside the buildingvoted to offer only nonviolent resistance shouldpolice storm the...