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For those who believe that prison is the surest antidote to crime, the news last week was good. It gave others pause, however, when Corrections magazine reported that as 1976 began, 249,538 people were behind bars in the U.S. - the highest number of federal and state inmates in history...
MacBride then read a 1,000-word sentencing statement, with frequent interruptions from Squeaky. "The only way to deter you from further violence," he said, "is to separate you from the society with which you can't agree." His sentence: life imprisonment (though she becomes eligible for parole in...
Although he is devoted to his work, Nesson has had opportunities to work on other issues drawing national attention. In 1970 he worked on the appeal of contempt citations in the Chicago Seven cases, and was also successful in acquiring a parole for Daniel Berrigan, who had been imprisoned for...
The Congress of Racial Equality wished him "a lengthy stay in jail"; his old Black Panther comrades ignored him altogether. Such was the cold welcome given to onetime Black Militant Eldridge Cleaver, 40, who stepped off a plane from Paris at New York's Kennedy Airport after seven years...
There is no one single reason why prisons have become so packed recently, but experts point to a number of factors: a skyrocketing crime rate, more efficient police departments, harsher sentences, tougher parole boards.