Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His attorney, Somerville lawyer Thomas August, said yesterday. "My understanding of the case is that my client committed a technical violation; there was no mens rea [criminal intent] present."
John Patrick Tully, a pouty, blue-eyed cocaine smuggler and confessed contract murderer, is just the sort of criminal former Philadelphia Superpro-secutor Richard Aurel Sprague loved to put on ice. No longer. In fact, the fighting D.A. is currently serving as Tully's lawyer. Sprague, 50, who gained...
Sprague sees this as Kafkaesque justice. More important, he looks upon it as a chance to fight against his pet outrage: slipshod standards in the criminal justice system. "I want to attack the plea bargaining in this case," he says angrily. "I want to make a mockery of what the...
For those who advocate hard-boiled treatment of repeat offenders, Butner's showcase experiment must seem like the scheme of a coddling egghead. Which is close to the mark. Mindful of the general dissatisfaction with the U.S. penal system and what it was achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director...
In his 1974 book, The Future of Imprisonment, Morris had detailed the concept of a "voluntary prison," drawing in part on results at three institutions -in England, Denmark and The Netherlands. Central to Morris' view was that prisons fail at rehabilitation because they try to cure criminal tendencies in...