Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweden's penal reform has had no visible effect in reducing crime. Quite the opposite. Whereas the Royal Prison Board in 1944 predicted there would never be more than 2,300 prisoners at a time, today there are 5,268, with 13,000 more on parole or given suspended...
Intricate Combination. The vigor and eloquence of the appeals, delivered from the unique platform of Death Row, have caught the public ear as they once caught the ear of cops, judges and social workers when Chessman began his life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling...
A year later he was sent to San Quentin on five convictions for robbery and assault.** After two years in San Quentin, as a reward for good behavior Chessman was transferred to the model "open prison" at Chino, where men are trusted not to escape. Chessman escaped, went back to...