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  • But the gruesome details of Geoghan's killing -- and the seemingly common-sense measures that might have prevented it -- have transfixed the public and energized prison-reform advocates.

    Preying On The Predator 2007

  • During the winter in Boston I attended all the lectures, churches, theaters, concerts, and temperance, peace, and prison-reform conventions within my reach.

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

  • After laboring in temperance, prison-reform, coëducation, and women's rights in the trades and professions, their hopes all alike centered at last in the suffrage movement.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • During the winter in Boston I attended all the lectures, churches, theaters, concerts, and temperance, peace, and prison-reform conventions within my reach.

    Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858

  • As examples of this highest type of courage, it may suffice to name Howard, whose labors for prison-reform were pursued at the well-known risk and the ultimate cost of his life;

    A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

  • At dawn on a recent morning in Harlem, prison-reform activists get ready to board two buses.

    WNYC New York Public Radio 2010

  • May 2007: Schwarzenegger signs a $7.8 billion prison-reform plan to add more than 50,000

    SFGate: Top News Stories By The Associated Press 2010

  • And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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