All the focus on the small number of people with mental illness who are violent serves to make us feel safer by displacing and limiting the threat of violence to a small, well-defined group.
And we are asked to believe that these developments all feed into a noisy and violent conflagration serving American neoimperialist ends.
That site, students were told, was to be "reimagined to house three hundred men convicted of serious, primarily violent offenses, serving sentences between five and fifteen years. . . .
Now, 10 years on, senior officers have visited Full Sutton prison in York, to question Brian Lunn Field, a violent paedophile serving life for the kidnap and murder of 14-year-old Roy Tutill in Surrey in 1968.
Dozens of violent prisoners serving life sentences in North Carolina since the 1970s will not be released until a new legal issue raised by the governor's staff is resolved, Gov. Bev Purdue announced Thursday.
"Many are non-violent offenders serving unnecessarily long sentences.
This new proposal will expedite the clemency process for thousands of non-violent offenders serving lengthy sentences behind bars -- sentences they would not have received had they been sentenced today due to changes in the law.
Indeed, an older theory -- that watching violent sports serves as a catharsis that makes people less likely to be violent -- has largely been discredited.
The parole act requires that violent criminals serve 85percentt of their sentences before they become eligible for parole.
Even as the situation worsens, the biggest corrections issue in the Legislature is the governor's push to make violent criminals serve 85percentt of their sentences.
