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Word: parolee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Pokey. After he was turned loose, the law found it necessary to lock him up again for violating his parole: he had celebrated his release by helping a friend bilk an old lady out of her money. When he got out the second time, the war was on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The jury found Gravitt guilty of involuntary manslaughter, recommended a year to 18 months in jail (he will be eligible for parole in four months). The judge let Gravitt go free for a week before sentencing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Reprieve. In Elmira Heights, N.Y., convicted of third-degree assault, Steve Weaver got a one-day parole on his 30-day jail sentence so that he could report for his weekly unemployment check.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hamstrung | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

If I Had the Wings ... In Calgary, Alta., Roofer Arnold Larson's jail sentence for drunken driving was postponed until he finished fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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