Word: penally
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...hundred years since it was drafted, New York State's penal code has been subjected to haphazard amendment, but not until a state commission started the job 2½ years ago did anyone try to renovate the entire collection of statutes. Reorganized and rewritten in clear English, the commission's proposed code was delivered to the legislature last week. In whatever form it is finally passed, its most important contribution is likely to be its redefinition of crimes. Examples...
...broke may soon be getting a better break. Governor Carl Sanders has been urging reform of the state's penal laws, and a bundle of ten Sanders-backed reform bills have been introduced in the legislature. One of them, just passed by the state senate and likely to win approval in the lower house, provides that a sentence to a state penal institution "cannot be imposed solely because of the inability to pay a fine...
...inconsistency of a brutal penal code in an enlightened society has long troubled civilized men from the days of ancient Greece to the present era of movements against capital punishment. The Ceremony is a gripping indictment of this inconsistency, and one of the best American movies to come to Boston in a number of months...
...Bookkeeper José Menendez was struck by the region's trading possibilities; ships sailing around the Horn stopped to replenish, and Indians were ready to trade pelts, ambergris and even grazing rights for trinkets and tobacco. Menendez set up a trading post at Punta Arenas, a port and penal settlement, and became friendly with a German emigrant, Elias Braun, who farmed near by. In 1895 Braun's eldest son, Mauricio, married Menendez' eldest daughter, Josefina; joined to romance was a practical mixing of land and trade. La Anonima, now run by their children, was started by Mauricio...
Florida law officials, even those who felt that the decision was constitutionally sound, were dismayed by its practical consequences. Of the 8,000 prisoners in Florida penal institutions, 4,542 were convicted without benefit of counsel. Already more than 3,000 have petitioned for review of their convictions. Court calendars are jammed; distraught prosecutors are working overtime searching petitioners' records and drawing up answering briefs; county budget directors are hunting desperately for funds to pay for retrials. The only hope for straightening things out, says the clerk of Escambia County's court of records, is to give some...