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- Title
- Corrections: An exercise in futility
- Author
- Bingner, Alice G.
- Pages
- 11 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
- PID
- apw:12358330
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
- Title
- My introduction to district court
- Author
- Bingner, Alice G.
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Ann' Arbor Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Phone: (734) 665-9760 Category: Word Count: l,4i4 My Introduction to District Court I made my way to court that first of many trips with knees of silly putty. I knew my son deserved whatever punishment the court deemed prudent - but no mother sees her 16-year old, the favorite of her brood, before a judge, without trepidation. I rode the elevator with a crowd of boys about 14. One read painstakingly aloud the sign in the eleva...
- PID
- apw:12358830
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:09:04.807Z