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...county district court judge ruled yesterday that there was sufficient evidence to-convict University police chief Saul L. Chafin on a charge of assault, but decided instead to continue the case without a finding for a year...
Since the 19th century, literature has housed a number of professional resisters, from the cast of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener to Camus's The Stranger. The letters of Convict Jack Abbott extend and ultimately strain that tradition. Part polemic, part existential survival manual, In the Belly of the Beast was culled from 1,000 pages of handwritten missives to Norman Mailer, then composing The Executioner's Song. Its message is brief, but it echoes like a slammed door in the corridors of maximum security...
Still, that hasty immunity grant will make it difficult to convict Cooke of any federal crime. So far, both military and FBI investigators seem convinced that Cooke, who had written his master's thesis at the College of William and Mary on nuclear weapons, and had twice been rejected for a job with the CIA, was merely trying to trade information with the Soviets in hopes of enhancing his self-image as a strategic weapons wizard. The case, said one investigator, is "bizarre...
Public outrage at the prevalence of violent crime, especially on city streets, has been growing. In a notable commencement address at the George Washington University National Law Center, Burger boldly argued that society's concern about a convict should not end when the cell door clangs shut. Declared Burger: "When society places a person behind walls and bars, it has a moral obligation to take some steps to try to render him or her better equipped to return to a useful life...
Allen Breed, director of the National Institute of Corrections, contends that courts have been both too lenient with violent criminals, who tend to repeat their offenses, and too harsh on all the others. Breed argues that many of these nonviolent convicts should be living in halfway houses and serving in work programs, in which they would be required to reimburse the victims from whom they stole or perform community services. Minnesota last year passed a law under which the nonviolent convict who endangers no one can be assigned by judges to these work programs. It is considered a model...