Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hinckley's lawyer, Miller testified that the patient had written to convicted Mass Murderer Theodore Bundy expressing sympathy "for the awful position that Bundy must be in." Hinckley had also received a letter from "Squeaky" Fromme, who tried to shoot President Ford in 1975, and had obtained the prison address of Killer Charles Manson...
...helps bring about change. Several such stories were honored last week with the newspaper world's most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with several witnesses who placed McCracken elsewhere at the time of the crime and a re-examination of forensic evidence that...
...that weighs any previous record and comes out with a prescription for the sentence. For example, a bank robber starts by getting 19 penalty points, gets 1 added for taking $15,000 and 9 more for shooting someone and causing serious injury. If the robber served a 14-month prison term five years earlier, the total of 29 points would direct the judge to set a new sentence -- whir, click -- between 97 and 121 months...
...polishing that results, however, is not likely to ease the worrisome impact of the changes on federal prisons, already at 153% of capacity. The guidelines permit probation in fewer circumstances, mostly for the first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could...
Tattersall says, "He came out of prison much less abrasive, a much nicer man than when he went in. He appeared at peace with himself...