Again, the goals are to reduce jail and prison crowding and to act as a mechanism to help the offender readjust to life outside prison, with all the attendant pressures and enticements to reoffend.
Prison officials, compelled to act, issued a call for a hangman.
That report asserts that federal authorities knew key details about Guzmán's plans to escape from prison, but failed to act.
The BOP has already hired Amy Lopez, a noted educator from the Texas prison school system, to act as the initial superintendent of the BOP school system.
She has had a distinguished second career as a psychologist who specializes in treating abused children and women in prison (and she continued to act into the 1990s, including in "The Joy Luck Club," of 1993).
Moaadi (so good as the shifty dad in the A Separation) is suitably anguished as Ali, while Stewart copes well as his pensive prison guard, constantly trying to act more tough than she is.
Y.A., he discovered later, was far worse than prison, because, while there were sane adults in prison, kids in Y.A. tended to act as they imagined violent incarcerated men did, which was often worse than the reality.
"You know, this whole prison situation, where you have to act macho and put up these mental barriers, this really allowed like a mental vacation," Mr. Paxton said.
Prison officials said they had to act after an increase in the amount of hooch circulating in the jail and described it as a "serious issue".
To do his own part in reducing the state's prison population would also be to act with the boldness he has shown on other issues.
