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Dan was on probation at the time, after several bouts with the law. The Morins, both 49, are part of a new breed of do-gooders in Minnesota's Hennepin County: volunteer probation officers in the department of court services. They joined the first class of volunteers in February...
The Morins chose to work primarily with men in the 17-to-28 age bracket who have committed misdemeanors. "We make a good team," Bill says proudly; he concentrates on the man while his wife does what she can for the family. He also belies the stereotype of the blue...
The incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids...
Theater v. Justice. For days he was shuttled between his cell in Trenton and a Hackensack courthouse. There he kibitzed idly with guards while three floors above the lawyers worked out the details with Prosecutor Edward Fitz-patrick and Judge Morris Pashman. A detailed scenario was agreed upon, and last...
"What you saw wasn't justice, it was theater," said Smith later. "It was something I had to do to gain my freedom." Though he will not directly deny his courtroom admission -presumably out of fear of affecting his probation-his implied recantation leaves the truth of what happened...