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What seems forgotten now, though, is that he just got out of the joint, the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, improbably freed after serving less than five years of a 12 1/2-year sentence. Since Keating walked, at age 73, prosecutors have been beside themselves to reimprison or retry him. In the meantime, he lives in near seclusion, although he recently met with TIME for two days of interviews that offer his first detailed account of his case since his release. Tan, relaxed and defiant, he says he is not going to cop a plea, say, for time served: "I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHARLIE'S AN ANGEL? | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...pain of reimprisonment?a usually unappealable decision made by parole agents, who thus have a rarely examined effect on the repeater rate. To test their judgment, Criminologists James Robison and Paul Takagi once submitted ten hypothetical parole-violator cases to 316 agents in California. Only five voted to reimprison all ten men; half wanted to return some men but disagreed on which ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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