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...three-time loser. Moreover, he lost forever his legal status as a free man, for California law proscribes that three-time losers receive indeterminate one to life sentences. Under California law, as in most states, though a con may be paroled from prison before the expiration of his maximum sentence, he is not released from the jurisdiction of the parole board until his full time has elapsed. Thus George Jackson, at age 20, faced the inevitability of living the rest of his life without ever again being legally...
...adopted the indeterminate sentence. Before those two actions, which were both hailed as enlightened reforms, incarcerations of 40 years and more were not unusual, and many more cons would have served sentences of that length if only they had lived that long. Finally, though life was the legal maximum of Jackson's sentence, the prescribed minimum, which determines the date of earliest possible release, was just one year...
...Michigan became the first state to use the indeterminate sentencing concept on adult offenders by passing a law changing the procedure of the penal disposition of convicted prostitutes. Under the new law, hookers were sentenced to a maximum of three years in the Detroit House of Correction but could be released earlier at the discretion of the institution's board of managers...
...decent, and submissive behavior" to the satisfaction of his captors. This other more threatening side of the indeterminate sentence did not figure into its earliest applications nor does it in the current universal use of the indeterminate sentence in American reform schools; because in each of these cases a maximum time of incarceration is prescribed by law. However, this threatening edge does play a prominent part in California's three-time losers law; simply because the sentence has no practical maximum...
...boards, commissioners and committees to see that they are "in balance" with each other and show real promise of cutting the inflation rate in half by the end of next year. Just what the word review may mean has been left deliberately vague, apparently in order to give Connally maximum scope in guiding the decisions of the other bodies without explicitly threatening their independence...