Show n 1 Flaunting S Sentences TI r rI I I HE E next legislature will be confronted with 4 proposals designed to correct the pardon and parole abuses jn n Utah I e Here are some facts that ought to be consid considered con con- consid sid red in conne connection tion with any legislation on oni i pardons dons I Prison r records show u that life terms temiS for u murderers have lost all meaning The TIle average term ter served by a lifer in Utah is about eight We years wears rs while prisoners serving sentences for second degree murder average only about five years Dears ears behind the bars A former district attorney gave the par pardons dons dons bo board rd and all the public some additional food for thought when he told the pardoning i officials that the average imprisonment for cI embezzlement during the last ten years has b been en four and a half months Embezzlers of public funds sentenced to indeterminate terms been free after extremely brief stays atthe atthe at the state prison The longest term for thus betraying a public trust was vas ten months this former forner prosecutor said that said that is the longest I until the case of William Groesbeck former deputy county treasurer who was paroled Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat- Sat after serving eleven months and four days for embezzling county money Such revealing statements as these show clearly that the sentences imposed by th the courts are being made meaningless under the present pardoning practices |