Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Burnice Iverson Geiger, now 63, returned to Iowa on parole, after serving five years of a 15-year sentence in the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. It was not much of a homecoming. Her husband had died shortly after her trial; her father and mother...
Co-Op Sentencing. The Detroit court has also proved its enlightenment in one of the law's darkest areas: the wildly disparate sentences that different judges hand out for the same offense (TIME, Dec. 31, 1965). Chief Judge Theodore Levin organized "a sentencing council" five years ago. Made up...
The typical all-white jury breeds injustice in three ways: 1) Negroes committing crimes against Negroes are likely to be let off too easily; 2) Negroes committing crimes against whites receive unduly harsh penalties; 3) whites committing crimes against Negroes either get off scot free or receive token sentences. Into...
> Centralized supervision of released convicts, to be achieved by unifying under the Justice Department the parole and probation functions now exercised by federal District Courts.
In Cold Blood is a minor national epic, illuminating many affecting portraits--allowing to share young Nancy Clutter's poignant diary: "Summer here. Forever I hope"; to witness the shock of her boyfriend's agony, by which an adolescent learns adult numbness; to be harassed by the posturing gruffness of...