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...more aware of the contrast between judicial precaution and penal carelessness than Chief Justice Warren Burger. Some find Burger's vehemence on the subject rather odd; he is often seen as a strict law-and-order jurist whom President Nixon appointed to lead the nation's highest bench away from the liberalism of the Warren court. In fact, Burger is a vocal advocate of reforming the penal system to stress rehabilitation rather than revenge. Last week he reaffirmed his concern with prison reform in two tough speeches-to the Association of the Bar of the City...
Price of Crime. Burger, of course, is not alone in his concern. President Nixon recently ordered Attorney General John Mitchell to map a ten-year plan for a complete redesign of the federal penal system. In a year of belt-tightening budgets, Nixon even asked for an additional $9,000,000 for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, raising its total allocation to $88 million. Much of Nixon's concern was prompted by a report published by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement. The commission noted that the U.S. now has 200,000 prison inmates, and at least...
...skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper Rudé Právo declared last week that there should be a distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition nor a general revenge." Yet no one can be too certain. The screening committee includes Alois Indra and Vasil Bilák, two of Czechoslovakia's most notorious collaborators with the Russians...
...know that he is quite aware of the young man's obsession with his daughter-and quite satisfied. As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life. "Bergtitbits and bergpenalties awarded by the High Court," he crows. "Bergpunishments inflicted by the local penal authorities and bergtitbits awarded by the department of caresses and delights...
...most serious threat to civilization is not to kill a man because of his ideas (this has often been done in wartime), but to do so without recognizing it or saying so, and to hide revolutionary justice behind the mask of the penal code. For by hiding violence one grows accustomed to it and makes an institution...