Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it. Clyde Stevens, a notorious bandit, had just accomplished his fourth bank robbery since they paroled him last October. The Press was hounding them again for laxity.
But what could they do? San Quentin Prison, jutting into the Bay 10 miles above San Francisco, had space...
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