Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, it is a fair start toward a writing career. Elli is now on parole and working on a new book. Meanwhile, Hollywood is offering him $150,000 for the movie rights to The Riot. Obviously, the ex-convict has found that the word is mightier than the pen.
The country's truck drivers, to be sure, are still so loyal to him that they recently raised his annual salary to $100,000 and approved a succession gimmick aimed at putting him back in the driver's seat as soon as he has served his time (21...
» A prisoner has no right of privacy. Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and recorded by Hartford's WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed...
The Council acted humanely itself by overruling the majority of the Parole Board. It recognized what a horrible injustice it would have been to have allowed an execution this month while a real chance exists next month that the General Court may suspend the death penalty.
Joseph F. McCormack, chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board and an opponent of capital punishment, has authored a valuable piece of legislation. He is asking the 1967 General Court not to repeal the death penalty, but merely to examine the chief argument of those urging its retention -- its efficacy as...