Word: penalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each of these original studies uncovered facts that were more and more disturbing to more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...
...cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France's second system of justice, with sentences "more rigorous" than the government...
...defense replied that genocide is not defined in any penal code in force in Cuba. Moreover, said the defense, although the airmen by their own count dropped 6,080 bombs and fired 5,000,000 machine-gun bullets, they deliberately misdirected their fire, dropped their bombs outside the target area, sabotaged bombs so they would not explode, falsified their flight reports. As evidence of this, the defense pointed to the small toll...
...windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...