Tag: rehabilitation
member name: Arnie King
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May 01, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
Prisons are reflective of a system that promotes arrogance in a very brutal way towards the powerless ones. Approximately 2 million in chains, while a substantial amount of people are subjected to parole, . . .
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May 27, 2006 10:27 PM EDT --
Corrections empire, policies such as mandatory sentences, the elimination of good-time deductions, and the use of private vendors in service contracts were introduced. The rate of parole continued to decline . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:49 PM EDT --
For every form of life (plants, animals, and humans), there are growth and development stages. Sunlight and water are the primary ingredients, but for all forms of life to exist, there needs to . . .
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May 05, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
The emotional temperature of the nation may be apathetic, while a cloud of pessimism hovers above our heads. But my tall glass of Welch's grape juice is half full, and I keep drinking. Despite the . . .
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May 09, 2006 06:56 PM EDT --
The original prison in America was designed to confine and isolate the criminal violator from law abiding citizens. Within the confines of those dreary concrete and steel perimeters, two different systems . . .
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May 10, 2006 07:00 PM EDT --
As a child, I was often told that I was much like my father. So I watched the way you walked, talked and interacted with others. You were a leader of men and I've often heard references of "Mr. . . .
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May 01, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
One of the few opportunities for communication to flow beyond prison walls is at the Bay State Poetry Society, which regularly meets four times a year.
In the early 70s, poetry readings were introduced . . .
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May 30, 2006 08:00 PM EDT --
Prison and Sentencing in Massachusetts, published by Mass Inc., recommends that prison construction should continue to build a minimum bed for every new medium cell. The state prison population, an estimated . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:55 PM EDT --
If I am to return to society, how would you want me to be?
Approximately 90% of the Massachusetts prisoners will (someday) be released to the community. In 1994, 3,763 prisoners were either paroled, general . . .
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April 25, 2006 10:09 PM EDT --
Someone once said that if it was meant to be, then it should definitely happen. This statement refers to karma, fate, even God's will to be done. But what about an unsuccessful effort? Was God's . . .
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May 06, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
Warm Greetings!
I received a request that I write about what daily life is like in prison. The following is an interview I did for Rising Times about 4 or 5 years ago. A few things have . . .
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May 06, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
Paul is 28 years old and is serving a 6-8 year prison sentence for bank robbery. He grew up in a Jamaica Plain household with his parents and 2 older sisters, attended parochial schools and had greater . . .
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