Word: problems
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...prisons, and, just as important, the dubious results that flow from them, it is clearly time to ask some cold-blooded questions about the future of the penitentiary. Does it make more sense, at $50,000 a cell, to cope with overcrowding by adding space? Or should the problem be dealt with by finding alternative penalties for nondangerous offenders, leaving prisons to do the only thing they have ever done well: confine the truly dangerous...
...prisoners are clearly dangerous, though various experts would argue that the percentage is greater or smaller. In any case, it is plain that a significant number could be set free without endangering the public. To find other ways to punish and treat such convicts would at once ease the problem of overcrowding and alleviate a great many pernicious problems related...
...Jersey blaze spotlights growing problem of chemical waste...
Seeking a judicial solution to a problem is usually an act of last resort. The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. When we judges get a question, it is almost always (a) very important, and (b) a tough case that is close enough to drive one mad. Hence the craft is hard...
...nagging problem, particularly in a sagging economy, is raising the necessary money. This was the principal topic of a three-day national symposium on the "American Movie Palace" held last week in Milwaukee, under the sponsorship of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The most significant message came from Washington. It was delivered by Paul C. Pritchard, deputy director of the Interior Department's new Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, who bore the bad news that direct federal support for theater preservation projects is drying up. The good news was that under...