Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the rabble-rousing Silver Shirts, now out on parole in Indiana after serving half of a 15-year federal sentence for sedition, had an old overhanging sentence commuted. He would not have to return to North Carolina to serve time for violating the state...
Never Had It Better. In San Quentin, Calif., Antonio Ditardo, 76, explained why he has never applied for a parole from his life sentence: "I'm wearing a clean shirt. Almost every Sunday I get chicken. I have 500 friends here. Would I do as well outside?"
Some of them discussed politics. Some discussed sex. "Roman Catholic Fascism" got him indicted in 1939, with three Yale professors and three football players testifying. He was released, but letters to President Roosevelt were termed violation of parole in 1941, and he was in jail again.
Mrs. X was 55 when she was admitted to the Topeka State Hospital in 1932. Suffering from delusions that her husband was trying to kill her (by putting formaldehyde on her toothbrush), she had tried to kill him. A year later the hospital recorded her as "mentally better . . . but . . . still...
After five months, prodded by encouragement that she might get the parole which had been so long denied her, Mrs. X began to shed her delusions. She started going downtown with a companion, and was amazed by the newfangled red & green stoplights. Soon she applied for a job and dutifully...