Novel Approach: Reading Courses as an Alternative to Prison

Novel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison
In Texas, offenders are being sent on reading courses instead of prison. Could it work in the UK? With one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, and the death penalty, the US state of Texas seems the last place to embrace a liberal-minded alternative to prison. But when Mitchell Rouse was convicted of two drug offences in Houston, the former x-ray technician who faced a 60-year prison …
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Letters to the Editor: July 22, 2010
Published 07/21/2010 – 1:25 p.m. To clarify my previous letter regarding the proposed Lowe’s on Poway Road: I would have preferred the headline: “No ‘big boxes’ on Poway Road,” with emphasis on “Poway Road.” I have no objection to Lowe’s other than the proposed Poway Road location.
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