Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1909 — SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1909. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1909.

The action of the supreme court in declaring that under our indeterminate sentence law a convict in our penitentiaries is entitled to no dimunition of the maximum sentence for good behavior may be the law, but it is very unjust and the next legislature should see to it that the fault is corrected. The convict who has Influential friends outside working for his parole has some hope and some object in trying to be a model prisoner, but the poor devil who is without friends must serve out his maximum sentence whether he behaves himself or not. This Is not right from any point of view, and should be corrected.