Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which Los Angeles Country had accused him, he became a three-time loser. Moreover, he lost forever his legal status as a free man, for California law proscribes that three-time losers receive indeterminate one to life sentences. Under California law, as in most states, though a con may be paroled from prison before the expiration of his maximum sentence, he is not released from the jurisdiction of the parole board until his full time has elapsed. Thus George Jackson, at age 20, faced the inevitability of living the rest of his life without ever again being legally...
...fixed sentence--one in which the time to be served is immutable by any action by the convict--provided to incentive for the inmate to reform. With nothing to gain by reforming, the prisoner usually became bitter and dangerously hostile to prison officials and the society they represented. The con served hard time, and often after his release sought revenge on society for his incarceration. The penal reformers also pointed out that the convict's bitterness was compounded by the corrupt manner in which inmates with pull on the outside could obtain pardons from governors--then the only mechanism...
Four characteristics of the nature and history of the indeterminate sentence in America bear significantly on the life of George Jackson. The first is that in theory and practice the indeterminate sentence is a janus-faced weapon. Although it offers the con the hope of being released prior to the time that he would have had to have served under a fixed sentence, it also threatens him with the possibility of indefinite incarceration if he does not display "orderly, decent, and submissive behavior" to the satisfaction of his captors. This other more threatening side of the indeterminate sentence...
...into violence for the sake of revenge or in the hope of escape. According to their depiction of him, he was not merely a man of extremes but one possessed and perverted by absolutes. To substantiate their charge, they cite Jackson's records as a criminal and as a con. The authorities note that he was a three-time loser and accumulated 45 charges against himself while he was an inmate--including the charge of murder...
...Skinner, Pro and Con...