Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For most of his life, lean, lobo-eyed Jesse James, now 39, seemed well on the way to paralleling the career of his notorious namesake, though less successfully. A hard-bitten Harlem Negro, he spent a dozen years in Comstock, the Elmira Reformatory and Sing Sing for crimes ranging from...
In his own defense, Elko insists that he has done nothing that was not in conformity with the spirit of the Second Vatican Council and the sense of papal directives. Distressed over the dissension in his diocese, he hopes eventually to return to Pittsburgh. But the tone of a recent...
Eight years is a long time for a man to spend in a state lockup, especially when the Federal Government has already got him for 15. So when Texas socked Billie Sol Estes in 1962 with eight extra years for his cunning way with nonexistent fertilizer tanks, Billie took the...
"I became tired of running in and out of prison," McCalla said. "I came to the conclusion that I couldn't communicate with intelligent people. If I got a job, it would be just through sympathy on somebody's part." He had already finished grade school and high...
McCalla's request was a bit unusual, but, said Warden Frank Pate, "I talked to the parole board, and they agreed to let him stay." McCalla settled down to study in the prison library. Hearing of his plight, Northern Illinois U. snipped academic red tape and gave him his...