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...dangerous in Italy to publish a photograph of a woman with a bare bosom. Such pictures-for instance, in Vogue's Italian edition-no longer provoke surprise. Despite the seizure orders (usually from a local prosecutor), Playmen has only rarely been charged under Article 725 of the Italian penal code for "violation of the common sense of decency...
Criminologist James Robison, who does research for the California legislature, is among those who question the accuracy of many penal statistics. He even disputes the much-vaunted results of the California Youth Authority's Community Treatment Project, a famous experiment in which convicted juvenile delinquents were not confined' but given intensive tutoring and psychotherapy. After five years, only 28% had their paroles revoked, compared with 52% of another group that was locked up after conviction. As a result, the state expanded the project and cut back on new reformatories, saving millions. Robison, though, has proved, at least to his satisfaction...
While Italy's penal code does not yet recognize skyjacking as a crime, Milnichiello faced a possible 32-year prison term on charges of assault, kidnaping and bringing into the country a "weapon of war"the Ml carbine with which he commandeered the plane. Convicted on all counts, Minichiello was sentenced to only 7½ years in prisona year and a month more than the sympathetic prosecution had requested. He has already served one year of the sentence in Rome's bleak Queen of Heaven jail while awaiting trial. The penalty will be reduced...
...into every exposé, witness the case of Don Luce, 36, a U.S. correspondent in Viet Nam. Last spring Luce (no kin to TIME'S founder) discovered political prisoners of the Vietnamese government locked into underground "tiger cages" that were being maintained by American dollars supporting the Vietnamese penal system. Luce told visiting Democratic Congressmen William R. Anderson and Augustus F. Hawkins, then escorted them on a tour of the cages, during which Congressional Aide Tom Harkin snapped a number of damning pictures. The Congressmen broke the story, and Luce supplied material for a pictorial essay in LIFE, creating...
...White House to donate $95 million for pollution control. Lassie taped a show battling the same cause last week. Not to be out-involved, other series are tackling the grievances of migrant workers, the excesses of twitchy-fingered National Guardsmen, the spread of gonorrhea, the need for penal reform, the problems of abortion, and the Senate seniority system...