Word: penal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three angels-two of them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...
Nobody can estimate how many sex "crimes" are actually committed, the researchers concluded, because most sexual acts which violate California's penal code are done in private by "mutually consenting" adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such...
...appeal (as it still is), he moved to Rome for still greater triumphs. But there, last week, the official Order of Doctors denounced D'Angelo to the public prosecutor for "abusive practice of the profession of medicine . . . [in] a series of acts which, apart from their penal unlawfulness, give open and real offense to science. Rome and Italy...
Your unfair editorial pictures Dever turning his back and whimpering "What can I do" when Corrections Commissioner MacDowell leveled 27 complaints against Dr. VanWaters, superintendent of a penal institution. The truth remains that the charges against Dr. VanWaters were filed before Dever took office. The truth remains that Dever acted immediately, appointing a three man panel to hear the case. The truth remains that one of the panel was Dean of the Harvard Law School and that the panel unanimously recommended Dr. VanWaters' reinstatement and the truth remains that immediately thereafter Corrections Commissioner MacDowell asked for and was granted...
...Dever has profited as much as the labor unions, for labor feels it must reimburse him with support at election time. He is building a new state prison, he has virtually outlawed capital punishment. But when he had a chance to prove that he really believes in progressive penal methods, he turned his back and whimpered "what can I do?" This was when his Correction Commissioner attempted to oust the reforming woman superintendent of a state woman's prison, Miriam Van Waters. Massachusetts needs new roads, and Dever is building new roads. But he is doing so at an incredible...