Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The next move in modernizing prisons--and all these experiments have been carried out more or less successfully in Europe--is to apply the indeterminate sentence to all criminals. Under this system a prisoner is placed on parole as soon as he is fitted for the responsibilities of civilized life...
Last week the penitentiary gates opened and convict No. 23,118 changed back to Frederick Albert Cook. Attorney General Mitchell had approved his parole. Its prime provision: Cook must hereafter write and speak nothing but the truth. The first $12,000 he makes, the U.S. will take as the fine...
Just before she went to prison widespread sympathy for her was dampened by a 500-page report on her life history submitted to Governor Roosevelt by Chairman John C. Maher of the New York Parole Commission.
The Past. The daughter of a Russian Jew buttonhole maker in Manhattan's lower East Side slums, Ruth Laeger, sexually precocious at 8, had been raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her...
4) A new parole board of three members (salary: $7,500) to sit in Washington and take the place and power of the Attorney General in passing on applications for release which now come to him at the rate of 9,000 per year.