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Sweden's penal reform has had no visible effect in reducing crime. Quite the opposite. Whereas the Royal Prison Board in 1944 predicted there would never be more than 2,300 prisoners at a time, today there are 5,268, with 13,000 more on parole or given suspended...
Several evenings a week Teacher Hanners held "guidance" sessions, and the boys freely brought him their problems, from abstruse moral ones to a shattered pair of glasses. Jaded prison officials, who had seen hardened criminals come and harder criminals go, marveled at the results. A 20-year-old named Robert...
Intricate Combination. The vigor and eloquence of the appeals, delivered from the unique platform of Death Row, have caught the public ear as they once caught the ear of cops, judges and social workers when Chessman began his life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling...
A year later he was sent to San Quentin on five convictions for robbery and assault.** After two years in San Quentin, as a reward for good behavior Chessman was transferred to the model "open prison" at Chino, where men are trusted not to escape. Chessman escaped, went back to...
In a boxy brick house in a drab West Side Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10...