Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich...
Word trickled from the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. that Maine-born Mildred Gillars. 58, bohemian-inclined oddball who achieved notoriety as Axis Sally, apparently wants to remain locked up. Mildred used to amuse Allied troops in World War II with English-language propaganda broadcasts from Germany...
Under the Jug. For two nights and a day the hostages huddled under the naphtha jugs. Around them, convicts hopped up on dispensary narcotics and kitchen-made "pruno" alcohol brandished their meat axes and jittered wildly. Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move...
The new code officially provides that every man may have a public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility...
Pillows & Salve. Such brutality was plausible. Kierdorf had an arm-long arrest record, once served 27 months for armed robbery. On parole he had been made, at Jimmy Hoffa's insistence, a Teamster official like his ex-convict uncle, Herman Kierdorf (impersonating a federal officer, armed robbery), before him...