Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founder of Fortune, David Rothenberg, said that community-based correctional facilities would be the answer to the present system. "Halfway Houses are only jails with carpeting in the middle of a city," he said. "Community-based facilities would allow the convict to work out his problems within the society...
...jury took only 90 minutes last week to convict the two remaining defendants (the other five had pleaded guilty). The convicted pair: James W. McCord, 53, former CIA official and security coordinator for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; and G. Gordon Liddy, 42, finance counsel to the C.R.P. Jailed on $100,000 bond, they face, respectively, up to 45 and 35 years in prison. But if the jury did indeed wonder who told them to bug the Democratic Party headquarters, that wonder remained unsatisfied...
...Meanwhile, a campaign for clemency was organized. Assorted allies called on White House aides and the Justice Department. Political support was recruited, petitions signed. There were three requests for parole, and three times the board unanimously voted no. Then President Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, and the famous convict was home for Christmas. As the election year began. White House relations with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters flourished as never before...
...week the Public Broadcasting Service network showed an hour-long program about one such encounter. It included excerpts from Brown's Christmas play; then, in a question period, members of the audience incredulously asked the actors about the reality of such scenes as the casual murder of a convict by three other prisoners...
...were not leaders, Charles Pernasilice and John Hill, both accused of beating a guard to death shortly after the riot broke out; the offense still carries the possibility of the death penalty in New York. The array of charges against other inmates includes the murder of a fellow convict, assault, coercion and even the theft of a prison...