Show the indeterminate sentence the theory of the indeterminate sentence is that it is the prisoner rather than the crime that is being tried and sentenced and every person convicted is permitted and re quiren to work out his own salva tion by demonstrating his fitness for release it is based on the ual s traits and tendencies and on the promise that he apparently has or develops toward adjusting to normal environment and return to so biety where a state has such an indeterminate sentence law it is the law itself that provides for these minimum and maximum sentences while many prisoners are paroled at the expiration of the minimum sentence many others are paroled only after serving the recommended maximum |