NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 10, 1983
Page 13
More prisoners leave crowded jails in N.Y.
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Another 20 prisoners were freed from overcrowded city jails yesterday despite what Mayor Edward Koch called the release one inmate last week and says later allegedly raped a woman.
Correction Department spokesman Edward Hershey said other 20 inmates had been released by yesterday morning, bringing the total number to 438 since last week. The U.S. District Court Judge Morris was ordered the city to reduce the prison population to ease crowding.
The Daily News quoted the unidentified woman as saying she hoped Craig "gets the electric chair."
Dean Craig, 36, a grand larceny suspect who was freed from jail a week ago, was held in prison yesterday, charged with raping and sodimizing a 21-year-old woman in the Bronx last Friday
"The judge would not like it if it was done to his own family," the woman, told the newspaper. "If that judge had not been a victim of rape."
THE INMATES WHO were released are awaiting trial and held in
lie of $1,500 bond or less. They must post 10 percent of their bail amount in cash and Craig won his freedom by putting up $150 on his $1,500 bond.
"We felt there would be dangerous people back on the streets as a result of this program but confronted with the realities of what it was simply no choice." Hershey said.
Mayor Koch said Craig's case reflected a "crainsiness in our society" and an "idiocy loose in the world."
"I say there is a craziness in our society when you care more for the rights of those alleged to have wrongdoings against the rights of society." Koch said.
The mayor said he would be unable to offer an explanation to the victim.
"She's the society I'm talking about. I'm saying to that woman, I cannot explain to you the idiocy of what we're being required to do. I cannot defend it," he said. "I am saying to her and to the rest of the people of this city that there is an idiocy loose in the world."
Craig's re-arrest made him ineligible for a second release from jail. Lasker Friday permitted the city to refuse to release prisoners charged with arrestee offenses or those re-arrested after being released under the bail program.
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee endorsed the resurrected Equal Rights Amendment on a 21-10 vote yesterday and sent the measure to the full house with hopes that it can be passed by Thanksgiving.
By United Press International
Committee advances ERA to full House
The Democratic-dominated committee wrangled for $5\frac{1}{2}$ hours with the 24-word constitutional amendment, beating back a rash of amendments seeking to neutralize its effects on the draft, abortion insurance rates, veterans benefits and private boys' and girls' schools.
The ERA, as it goes to the full House, is identical to the proposed amendment that passed Congress in 1972 and died in 2008. The short of the 38 needed for ratification.
It states: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
"It's been a long time," sighed Rep Patricia Schroeder, D-Dolo., prime sponsor of the ERA introduced early
this year. "Women would like to be in the Constitution."
ADVERSARIES JUDY Goldsmith, president of the pro-Era National Organization for Women, and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly, an ERA appponent, were in the audience for the lively debate over attempts to repeal wording of the amendment before sending it to the states for ratification.
The changes would have written in exemptions to spare women from the violence.
ordering changes in abortion policies,
insurance rates and single-sex private
hospitals.
"If we send it out naked of any of these amendments, it is just doomed to failure," lamented Rep. Sam Hall Jr. of Iowa and joined on the panel to vote against the ERA.
"There seems to be a great deal of momentum in this committee for an equal rights amendment," criticized Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., "but you had 12 years and you lost ... It seems you have learned nothing."
Former CIA agent sentenced to 25 years
NEW YORK — Former CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson, whose lawyer said was unfairly branded an "infamous ogre," was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in jail and a $75,000 fine for attempting to murder eight people.
The sentence means Wilson, 55, now faces a total of 57 years in jail on this and previous convictions. But he will be eligible for parole in 10 years.
U. S. District Judge Edward Weinfield imposed sentence yesterday for attempted murder, retaliation against a defendant who was guilty of ruled the sentences will run concur-
reently with the 25-year sentence for attempted murder
The white-haired Wilson, dressed in a tan suit, stared at the floor as his sentence was read. He declined to speak on his own behalf.
WILSON'S ATTORNEY, Michael Dowd, asked for leniency, saying Wilson had unfairly gained the reputation as "some kind of infamous ogre."
"Mr. Wilson lived in a nightmarish world for 20 years, where the rules of
morality were suspended," Dowd said.
"Right was wrong and wrong was
right, and anything went as long as you
were doing it for the U.S. government."
Weinfeld curtly rejected Dowd's appeal.
"The defendant's conduct indicates utter disrespect and contempt for law and for human life. There is no suggestion he is penitent . . . and there is no change in his attitude." Weinfeld said in passing sentence.
Wilson completes a 32-year sentence he already is serving for smuggling arms
Evidence at his most recent trial showed that while Wilson was in prison awaiting trial in his Libyan arms cases, he plotted to kill witnesses and prosecutors by trying to recruit other inmates to carry out the murders.
Additional charges for smuggling weapons to Lybia are pending against Wilson in Washington, D.C., prosecutors said.
The 25-year sentence will begin after
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