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...principle, that meant an offender was held in prison until authorities believed he was rehabilitated and ready for release. Punishment was supposedly going to fit the criminal, not the crime. But quite apart from the difficulties of achieving any rehabilitation, the discretion involved gave authorities irresistible power to manipulate convict behavior. It was "one of the more exquisite forms of torture," concluded one study. The virtually uniform bitterness of "indeterminated" prisoners has helped convince experts that a complete about-face is now necessary...
...robber would get eight years. At the time of sentencing, the total could be reduced or increased by the judge because of mitigating or aggravating circumstances. But apart from that adjustment, a given sentence would be mandatory. Each day of good behavior in prison would earn the convict a day's reduction of the sentence; parole would be abolished. Says Commission Director David Fogel: "Justice requires that everything be clear...
...week did Room 303 of the Erie County courthouse in downtown Buffalo begin to fill. Representatives of the Six Nations Indian "family" occupied one row in the spectators gallery. Sketch artists and television reporters craned for a better view. Defense Attorneys Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler and their young convict clients sat at an L-shaped table scarcely five feet from Chief Prosecutor Louis Aidala. Sheriffs' deputies and bailiffs stood poised to quell any disturbance. Outside, as many as 400 pickets marched in chilling rain and snow round the gray granite edifice...
Feral Magnetism. As the Frenchman descended from hero to convict, the Hungarian rose from dilettante to provocateur. Herzl did not invent the idea of a Jewish state-the appeal of Return to Jerusalem is, after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with...
...saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some of the jurors viewed Edelin's race as a crime in itself. Furthermore the jury dealt with the judge's instructions haphazardly, substituting, for his stipulation that it must find Edelin guilty of "wanton and reckless" conduct in order to convict, its own speculation that he might have been remiss in checking to see if the fetus were alive upon removal, and was hence guilty...