Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good pre-sentence reports, trial judges cannot predict whether x years will suffice. Some countries require written sentence opinions for higher-court review. American law should probably hand the job to penal experts. Federal judges already may send convicted persons to classification centers before sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most of the world in systematic penology, judges give indeterminate sentences, and correction officials then determine the offender's fate according to his well-tested possibilities...
...World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime Communist apparatus. Arrested on a conspiracy charge, Eisler jumped bail, got away aboard a Polish liner to Europe, where he eventually became head of East German radio...
Obviously many of the members want peaceful change; Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance in Flint, Mich. On the other hand, the mood of ugliness was typified by H. Rap Brown, who went to court for bail-term violations and spoke up so harshly during a recess that he was charged with threatening a Negro FBI agent: "We are going to get you, and if you have any children, we will get them...
Expenses for the combined railroads are not likely to fall quickly. The bill for consolidating track and freight yards will amount to millions. And the Penn Central has also promised a $25 million loan to the New Haven Railroad to bail out its money-losing passenger services until the merged roads include the New Haven in their system. But eventual savings from joint operations may reach $100 million a year. And additional revenue sources are being tapped. Last week Perlman announced that a lease agreement had been signed with a British investment group which plans to build an office building...
Hansen said that Avatar has paid out more than $225 in bail since last Saturday, when nine others were arrested for selling the paper. "To us, it's a lot," he said. "We're down to the wire...