Cook v. Lawes

The petitioners sought orders of peremptory mandamus to direct the Prison Board of Sing Sing Prison to meet and determine the amount of compensation they will recommend to be allowed to the petitioners to the end that they may be released. They have been committed to the prison for crimes of violence committed between 1929 and 1933; and they claim that they are entitled to a reduction of their respective sentences of from seventeen and one-half to twenty-two and one-half days per month by virtue of statutes amending section 230 of the Correction Law from 1931 to 1934. This result they reach…