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Convicted in September of 1968 of voluntary manslaughter, Newton was serving a two to fifteen year sentence in a California penal farm. However, the conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeals on May 29 on the grounds that the trial judge had failed properly to instruct the jury...
...largest island of an emerald archipelago 50 miles off the coast of South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Sometimes called Poulo Con-dore after its Portuguese discoverer, the lush, Manhattan-size territory was made into a penal colony by the French in 1862 and became known as the Devil's Island of Southeast Asia, from which no one returned. But many did, including nearly all the current top leadership of North Viet Nam and several senior South Vietnamese statesmen who served time there under the French...
Asia is not exactly noted for enlightened penal systems or livable prisons. Yet. thanks in part to several million dollars in U.S. aid, Saigon authorities boast that most of Con Son's 9,500 prisoners now enjoy work in vegetable gardens and craft shops as well as supervised surf bathing. But it was something else that Democratic Congressmen Augustus F. Hawkins of California and William R. Anderson of Tennessee were looking for last week when they visited the island as part of a congressional fact-finding team...
...prisons overcrowded: 32,000 inmates, more than half classified as Communists, are confined in 37 provincial and four national prisons, which certainly need both reforms and improved facilities. They are not likely to conclude, however, that the tiger cages are characteristic of Saigon's entire penal system or even that the Vietnamese have outdone the French. French jailers in Con Son specialized in such techniques as placing red ants in the securely fastened pantaloons of female prisoners or slashing the soles of inmates' feet, pouring alcohol in wounds and setting them aflame...
...otherwise in disarray. The country ranks an embarrassing 20th in per capita income ($1,400 per year) among nations, trailing not only Japan but all of Western Europe's major industrial states. Italian workers are unhappy about low wages. Students complain about overcrowded universities. The country's penal code is outdated. Seven out of ten Italians polled recently in a public-opinion survey were disgusted enough to say that they were willing to vote temporary power to an "honest, energetic and disinterested" dictator. In moments of great frustration, traffic jams or trains that do not run on time...