Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
About 70% of all adults imprisoned for serious crime are repeaters who have already been in jail at least once before. Many are on parole or probation. One man in Houston was arrested for thievery and released eleven times in 18 months without ever going to trial. The same is true for juvenile criminals. A study done by Marvin E. Wolfgang, a sociologist and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 627 out of 10,000 youths in Philadelphia became chronic offenders. They were responsible for two-thirds of the violent acts and 52% of all offenses committed...
...Joseph Thomas on police records and his dossier is full. He has been arrested eleven times on charges that include assault on a police officer, simple assault, strong-armed robbery and possession of a carbine. But, thanks to the vagaries of juvenile justice, he has never served time in jail...
...inmate No. 6178 at the Marion (Ohio) Correctional Institution. He spent his days in the prison work gang hauling hog manure as he served a one-to-20-year manslaughter sentence for having killed a numbers racketeer who had doublecrossed him. Released in September 1971 after four years in jail, he now rides to work in a chauffeured 21-ft. Cadillac limousine. For that work he rents a choice office suite: the $85,000-a-year, eight-room penthouse atop the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. That eyrie high above Manhattan is symbolic of King's position...
...Jail was my school," says King. "I came out armed and dangerous. Armed with wisdom and knowledge. I read Aristotle and Homer. I got into Sigmund Freud. That almost blew my mind. I've been taught by Hegel, Kant, Gibran, Fanon and Samuelson. Man, I love Bill Shakespeare. He was some bad dude...