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Sir / The sentencing process is not totally arbitrary as TIME suggests [April 9]. It is aided by sentencing institutes, trial judges, colleges, probation and sentencing reports, conferences, seminars, discussions with colleagues and, most important, by hard, practical experience in the real world.
MIAMI. Democratic Mayor David Kennedy was indicted two weeks ago for conspiracy to bribe; he was charged with attempting to free a convicted drug offender. Also indicted was Circuit Judge Jack Turner, who had first sentenced the dealer to three years, then dismissed the case. At the same time, Circuit...
The Crimson ought to be playing equal to anyone in the Ivy League though there are four other teams with a shot at the title. Columbia, last year's dual-meet champion, returns with a strong squad, but rumor has it that three of their top players are on academic...
Two major enterprises are already flourishing. One is a moving company headed by Pete Diaz, 29, who grew up in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem and began mainlining heroin at eleven. He learned to drive a tractor-trailer rig when he was twelve, and served five years for armed robbery...
Prisons in the Bay Area regularly admit Delancey Street residents to screen recruits, and courts sometimes put addict-criminals on probation if they join the family. Says San Francisco County Sheriff Richard Hongisto: "Delancey Street doesn't cost the taxpayers money and it's not bureaucratic. It is...