Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the last half-century, millions of U.S. citizens have come to sympathize with one hopeful theory of modern criminology: that a wrongdoer deserves the chance of rehabilitation or psychiatric treatment, and that society profits if he is cured rather than blindly punished. But millions of the same people are...
¶ At Napa, Calif., two sheriff's deputies, a judge and the mother and mother-in-law of Paroled Murderer Frank Pedrini waited, armed and in mortal fear of Pedrini, a 46-year-old badman, who was on the rampage again. Pedrini did his first prison stretch for armed...
Chairman Walter A. Gordon of California's Adult Authority explained why Pedrini had been paroled. "Sometimes you judge wrongly. You can't tell that a man'll go sour like Pedrini. But murderers have our best parole records, and we take into consideration the best measurements of...
The U.S. Parole Board in Washington announced that it had once more considered the parole application of Perjurer Alger Hiss, again agreed to deny it.
Once in custody, Moore (who said his name really is Ferroll Warren Cottrelle). demonstrated that he was still a good salesman. He said that his desire to return to the U.S. was fired by the sight of the American flag in a parade. And besides, he wanted to clear his...