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...ride the 45 miles out to Bridgewater once each week and for an hour and a half you teach a guy to read. Your first time down you wonder how some convict who has been labeled criminally-insane or sexually-dangerous is going to react to an occasional visitor from Harvard. You meet the guy, try to find something to talk about, administer a battery of standardized reading tests. At 9 p.m. you finish. You say good-bye to the guy you've tutored and don't know whether to smile, look sad, or even look at him. Then...
...those who need continuing care and treatment and those who if given some therapy and a job, could live peacefully outside an institution. But this is a job for highly competent psychiatrists, not the Department of Correction's informally-trained charlatans. A system of rehabilition that minimized the ex-convict's trouble in adjusting would make life easier for him and everyone else. Whether any rehabilitation can occur in a system dominated by corrections officers becomes the essential question...
...cover-up learn that their prison terms had been cut short by a compassionate Judge John J. Sirica. Although they had formally applied for release earlier, Sirica had, in a sense, held them hostage until after the conspiracy trial ended. The testimony of Dean, Magruder and Kalmbach had helped convict four former officials of the Nixon Administration-John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian-in that trial. Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believes, in fact, that the testimony of such lower-level members of the conspiracy, plus the celebrated March 21, 1973 "cancer on the presidency" tape, would...
...complete performance. Prates protested, "We're missing one person here-the orchestra leader." That implied another desperate defense hope: because former President Richard Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald Ford and had then been judged too ill to testify, the jury might find it unfair to convict Nixon...
...says Mosiello, as he sits in his modest "office" -cell 105, 3 Tier, 6 Wing Right, Trenton State Prison. While other cons roam idly through 6 Wing, struggling with the numbing daily routine inside what they grimly call "the Wall," time rushes by for Hank Mosiello, No. 50622, a convict entrepreneur who does not need to be free to be enterprising...