Matter of Intention

To find out what life was like inside a Long Island jail, Newsday Reporter Don Kellerman, 25, tried a risky--but sure--method of getting firsthand information. He got himself arrested on a burglary charge (TIME, Nov. 3), and while in jail gathered material for a Newsday series which touched off an investigation of the Suffolk County jail and brought Kellerman the "Distinguished Service Award" of the New York Bar Association. But Kellerman's plan also had a less desirable byproduct: he was indicted for burglary. Last week County Judge Fred Munder set aside the indictment and freed Kellerman on the grounds that "an essential element of the crime of burglary was missing . . . there was no criminal intent on the part of the defendant."

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