Description: Michael Keating of Boston Bar Association says sentencing is disproportionate to crime & disagrees with Weld's stance on lengthening and toughening sentences. Many shots of overcrowded prison.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1991
Description: Interview with David Brower of Earth Island Institute and Robert Bigelow of New England Electric System on hydroelectric power generation from James Bay, Quebec.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1991
Description: Bush professes to launch war on crime through bill calling for federal death penalty and tougher gun laws. Says gulf warfront was safer than urban streets at home.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1991
Description: Interview with convict Joseph Yandle, who hopes for commutation of his life sentence, but Board of Pardons has denied earlier appeal. Gov. Weld is not disposed toward prisoner leniency.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1991