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...deserves a massive vote of confidence in any referendum University Hall chooses to hold. But it also deserves to be freed from the harassment of whimsical, politically timed referenda that University Hall dreams up to stir up a little trouble...
...like Iowa and Minnesota) has a law that automatically provides for releasing inmates when overcrowding becomes abject. Twice this year the statutory safety valve was triggered in Michigan, instantly subtracting 90 days from the sentences of most prisoners. By the end of the year 1,400 will have been freed early. Crowdedness has forced Illinois prison officials to lower their standards for giving "meritorious good time" to inmates. Alabama let out 277 surplus inmates last summer on the order of a federal court. Over the past five years, meanwhile, Alabama's prison budget has quadrupled...
...slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous and utterly hopeless. Alexander rejected it, of course, for which both Sasha and Mama turned against him, and from that day on Mama disavowed all connection with her nephew and refused...
...lawyer of last resort in many controversial cases--ranging from defending porn star Hary Reems to representing nursing home mogul Bernard Bergman to backing CIA agent-turned-whistleblower Frank Snepp to aiding the JDL conspirator. In some cases, his clever defenses advanced civil liberties; in others, they freed people who should be behind bars...
...Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit had just refused to block a federal district court decision ordering the release "forthwith" of 1,800 Haitian immigrants who have been imprisoned for about a year in 14 U.S. detention camps. The Department of Justice said the first detainees could be freed by the end of the month...