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Accusations against the other defendants include six charges of "selling an obscene thing," 18 charges of "selling or distributing obscene literature," and 10 charges of "selling an obscene thing to a minor." The prosecution is basing its case on Chapter 28 of the Penal Code of Massachusetts, which prohibits the sale of obscene literature...
Prisons are traditional finishing schools of writers and revolutionaries. Eldridge Cleaver is a product of both the black ghettos and the California penal system. Convicted of a marijuana charge at 18 and of assault with intent to kill at 22, Cleaver spent most of the twelve years between 1954 and 1966 in Soledad, Folsom, and San Quentin state prisons. And now, at 32, he is a Ramparts staff writer and a "fulltime revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America...
...American Bar Association committee recently urged maximum five-year terms, except for dangerous offenders.*But even with good pre-sentence reports, trial judges cannot predict whether x years will suffice. Some countries require written sentence opinions for higher-court review. American law should probably hand the job to penal experts. Federal judges already may send convicted persons to classification centers before sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most of the world in systematic penology, judges give indeterminate...
...possible penal aspects of the 1-A classification also became evident in the recent case in which the Ann Arbor, Mich. draft board reclassified students who had II-S (student) deferments to 1-A because the students held an anti-war sit-in in their local headquarters. The courts ruled the reclassification unconstitutional...
...Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...