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...cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France's second system of justice, with sentences "more rigorous" than the government...
...defense replied that genocide is not defined in any penal code in force in Cuba. Moreover, said the defense, although the airmen by their own count dropped 6,080 bombs and fired 5,000,000 machine-gun bullets, they deliberately misdirected their fire, dropped their bombs outside the target area, sabotaged bombs so they would not explode, falsified their flight reports. As evidence of this, the defense pointed to the small toll...
...windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
...other examples range from brainwashing techniques of the Chinese Communists to the more beneficent therapies of a Californian penal system. In Brave New World Huxley had his director of Hatcheries and Conditioning use a technique called hypnopaedia, by which subjects got moral training during sleep. In 1957 the warden of the Woodland Road Camp of Tulare County, Calif, was doing just that. With pillow loudspeakers, the warden was able to reach certain delinquents in their sleep, and from a phonograph in his office counsel them to be good. The black arts of hypnosis, subliminal commercials and so on are becoming...
...holds a chair in law at Columbia University, was an assistant attorney general from 1944 to 1946. Part of that time he served at the Nuremberg Trials as a judge's adviser. At present, Wechsler is working with the American Law Institute on the drafting of a model penal code...