Advocates; Would we be safer from crime if we closed down most of our prisons?

11/23/1972

Moderator: Michael Dukakis Advocate: Howard Miller Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Jerome Miller Commissioner of Youth Services, Massachusetts John Irwin, Ph.D. Ex-Convict Kenneth Fare Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California James W. L. Park Associate Warden, San Quentin Bernard Garmire Police Chief, Miami David Robinson Professor, Criminal Law, George Washington University

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Series: Advocates
Program: Would we be safer from crime if we closed down most of our prisons?
Program Number: 308
Series Description: A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969
Program Description: Moderator: Michael Dukakis Advocate: Howard Miller Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Jerome Miller – Commissioner of Youth Services, Massachusetts John Irwin, Ph.D. – Ex-Convict Kenneth Fare – Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California James W. L. Park – Associate Warden, San Quentin Bernard Garmire – Police Chief, Miami David Robinson – Professor, Criminal Law, George Washington University Taped at the University of Wisconsin by WHA-TV in Madison, WI Bears WGBH copyright.
Duration: 01:00:03
Asset Type: Broadcast program
Media Type: Video
Subjects: Miller, Howard; Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933-; Rusher, William A., 1923-2011
Locations: Madison, Wisconsin
Genres: Debate
Topics: Social Issues; Public Affairs
Contributors: Miller, Howard (Guest); Dukakis, Michael (Moderator); Miller, Jerome (Guest); Robinson, David (Guest); Fare, Kenneth (Guest); Irwin, John (Guest); Garmire, Bernard (Guest); Rusher, William (Guest); Park, James (Guest)
Publication Information: Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
Citation: Chicago: “Advocates; Would we be safer from crime if we closed down most of our prisons?,” 11/23/1972, GBH Archives, accessed December 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_15BE342646C448FD913EC48B1A6D75B7.; MLA: “Advocates; Would we be safer from crime if we closed down most of our prisons?.” 11/23/1972. GBH Archives. Web. December 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_15BE342646C448FD913EC48B1A6D75B7>.; APA: Advocates; Would we be safer from crime if we closed down most of our prisons?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_15BE342646C448FD913EC48B1A6D75B7

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