Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a prisoner at San Quentin, Kirkes set out doggedly to get a new trial-even though he would soon be eligible for parole and was exposing himself to a risk of being sent to the gas. chamber by a second jury. His request was finally granted. Once more citizens...
The other two stories are more effective. The last tale, about an aerialist who dreams of falling and tempts fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the...
At week's end, New York had waived extradition on a parole-jumping charge, but California was ready to demand the return of Pytsch-Raboski to serve out his sentence. Neighbors in Northlake, including Chief Heck, pledged their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a...
No Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they...
The federal parole board in Washington denied parole requests from Gambler Frank Costello, in prison in Milan, Mich, serving 18 months for contempt of Congress, and Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders, serving five years at Terre Haute, Ind.