Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilkins was let off with a hand-smacking: a suspended sentence and two years' probation, conditioned on his promise not to leave Allgood's judicial district in that time without specific permission from the parole officer.
Shortly before the thugs were tried, however, New York had abolished the death penalty for all but police killers. As a result, Justice Malbin sentenced the killers to life imprisonment-then angrily noted that they will be eligible for parole in 26½ years. Worse, said Malbin, "there is a...
Criminal-law experts have faulted Malbin for disregarding the fact that lifers are paroled by parole boards only if they deserve it. Under a forthcoming (1967) change in New York law, the critics added, thugs whose victims survive would be eligible for parole in 8½ rather than 40 years...
The TEST program also provides counseling services for the youths, many of whom are high school drop-outs or juveniles on parole. Dunne explained that Cambridge counselors accompany youths to court, provide legal aid, work with City probation officers, and find places to live for those not living with their...
This week, with a month's recuperation behind him, he will go back to prison to complete his sentence of three to five years for breaking and entering. Pennell will soon become eligible for parole, and hopes eventually to start life anew as a two-fisted worker in a...