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The American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups mourn the effects of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, saying that it leaves no way to prevent prisons from backsliding into the inhumane conditions that warranted judiciary intervention.
American satire rarely comes more winning than Election , an exuberantly caustic comedy that shows the symbiotic relationship between political go-get-'em-ism and moral backsliding.
Criminologist John DiIulio claims that inner-city "super-preachers" are the best hope for saving troubled kids from crime: Churchgoing seems to prevent backsliding by recovering drug addicts and former criminals.