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For a century the indeterminate sentence has been the sweetheart of prison reformers. Yet this month Illinois becomes the fourth state in two years-after Maine, California and Indiana-to install a system of judicially fixed, predetermined sentences in place of the traditional, often capricious program of discretionary release by...
In most states, judges can sentence a convicted robber, say, to between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors...
The rush to determinate judgment is being led by an unlikely alliance: inmate groups, various academics and law-and-order conservatives. Since California embraced the indeterminate sentence in 1917, prisoners have increasingly chafed under what they see as the arbitrariness of parole authorities. Soledad Brother George Jackson, for example, was...
Reach-Out, keenly aware of the image problem attached to any activity of its kind, takes pains to strees the trustworthiness of the counselors, all 30 of whom have been through a screening process and 16-week training period. Officers of the program, who have a lot at stake in...
Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter of Utah once hauled in nearly 30 postal workers for contempt of court because mail-sorting machinery in Ritter's courthouse was noisy. He freed 29 felony convicts simply because no attorney was present at their parole hearings. Once he had a reporter confined for...