"Non-white" would be usual in today's US. I don't know whether "colored" was ever used that much in the US to mean "non-white" as opposed to "black or known to be of sub-Saharan African descent".

Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human rights to-day? In the way that Borstals applied them, yes. Britain is no longer disciplinarian, except perhaps in the armed services,

I quote from that site. "Borstal was a strange mixture ... completely illegal and contrary to the boys' human rights today. Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human

By anyone's standards, this boy is whacko I don't see how jail time could do him any good, Some schizophrenics can be productive in a very useful way, like the Nobel prize winner (Nash?) who inspired the movie "It's a beautiful

AFAIK most penal legislation of civilized countries recognize the insanity defense. Yes, but how often is it used? Not very often because it generally doesn't work; am I right, Judge Liebs? I haven't done any recent looking up of the

Yeah, OK. Maybe you have some point in mind. You've disguised it well. My point was that your arguments don't make sense at all. Sorry for being too subtle for you, but that's my default mode. OK..let's put the context back in and

Indeed they do. Yet in some other countries... Amnesty International ... prisoners in the United States have a serious mental illness. I've seen other references to this charge. I never know how to view this. Any condemned prisoner has been

Indeed they do. Yet in some other countries... Amnesty International estimates that five to 10 percent of condemned prisoners in the United States have a serious mental illness. I've seen other references to this charge. I never know how to

The bare "o" could represent /oU/ or in Received Pronunciation, /@U/ or /O/ or /A/. I personally find the use of "o" in the Columbia Guide entry to be odd. The only reason I knew that the "o" used in the system