Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The suspended were not just hooky-players and teacher-sassers. Many of them were knife-toting youngsters awaiting trial on such charges as robbery, assault and rape; many others had been convicted and turned back into the schools on parole or suspended sentences. Some could not be notified immediately of...
As a young man, Buck realized that he did not belong at Glenwood, and asked for parole. His requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years...
These specific indications of Leopold's mental health are supported by more general statistics. Murderers have by far the best parole record of any group of criminals, with less than one half of one per cent returning to prison. In addition, the over-whelming majority of criminals is totally reformed...
These are more positive arguments for Leopold's release. Besides being a model prisoner, Leopold has redesigned the prison library, learned to be a medical technician, taught classes in prison, served in cancer experiments, and participated on the board for parole prediction on which he has written two published articles...
Even if Leopold were totally lacking in intellectual abilities or altruistic purpose, there would be no logical reason for not granting him a parole. It is quite obvious that Leopold would long ago have been released if he had not participated in the "Crime of the Century," and if his...