Arrested for assault and armed robbery in 1943, Whitey Bulger got his first (and what was supposed to be final) sentence, spending five years in juvenile reformatory. After his release in 1948, he served a short stint with the army before being honorably discharged and returning to his home in Massachusetts. n 1956 he served his first sentence in federal prison when he was sentenced to time in Atlanta Penitentiary for armed robbery and truck hijacking. His third request for parole was granted in 1965, and he left prison a free man once again. He soon rose to prominence as a crime boss and leader of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. After 16 years at large and 12 years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica,…show more content… This process would make rehabilitation and therapy easy to implement for nonviolent and repeat offenders and keep the violent offenders contained and separated from other violent gang members and criminals, vastly reducing the conflict within the prisons. At Northampton County Prison, prison officials redesigned their classification system to separate criminals by the severity of their offenses and criminal history. According to Corrections Director H. James Smith, "It will almost eliminate ever having a predator with his prey. You might have had a drunken driver in the same cell as someone with aggravated assault. That can't happen now." (Scott 1) This idea of separation is also present in The Iliad, where the Archaeans split their ranks and organized them to keep the upper hierarchy of the military separate from the hoi polloi, just as prisons should be organized to prevent conflict between different hierarchies. Prisons should learn from the Greeks and separate the prison populations rather than keeping all sorts of people together and instigating
