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...purposes of the American Law Institute, founded 32 years ago by Statesman Elihu Root, is "to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs." Up for discussion before the institute last week was a Model Penal Code, covering sex and other offenses, which state legislatures can use as a guide. In explaining their approach to sex laws, the code's drafters said: "The code does not attempt to use the power of the state to enforce purely moral or religious standards. We deem it inappropriate for the Government to attempt to control...
...past few years, and many more will soon appear on video. Professor Arthur E. Sutherland is currently organizing a weekly series to be entitled 'Life in Law." Although this program will rely mainly on lawyers, guest scholars from many fields will discuss such problems as segregation, penal reforms, and labor unions...
...midnight and 3 a.m., the convicts were polite but adamant. They faced the com mittee across a table, set up with a pad and pencil as if for a board-of-directors meeting. They served coffee to the committeemen, talked at length of their hopeless futures, the rigid Massachusetts penal code, the miserable living conditions in Cherry Hill (one of the committeemen, Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, was shut for a few min utes in one of the granite solitary cells -to see how it felt). At the second meeting, the following afternoon, the tensions mounted...
...partial solution to Massachusetts' current prison woes is in the offing. Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, is working on a bill to reform the State's outmoded penal system. The Law School's Legislative Research Bureau is drafting the proposed measure, which will go before the legislature sometime next year...
...lead of the national administration in adopting a policy of massive retaliation to deal with the forces that threaten us. Faced with the recent uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway...