Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The committee, of course, was charged with producing more practical suggestions. As might be expected, it began with an examination of the police, the courts, and the prison and parole system-the agencies with which society apprehends, judges, punishes and attempts to reform its criminals. In every area the commission...
Prisons & Parole
For all the troubles of the police and the courts, the prison and parole system seems to be in even deeper difficulty. "The most striking fact about the correctional apparatus today," says the commission, "is that, although the rehabilitation of criminals is presumably its major purpose, the custody of criminals...
The magazine also has its own special crusades. It recently brought enough pressure to win a parole for a West Virginia disk jockey who was serving a one-to-ten-year sentence for a morals offense with a consenting teen-age girl. Another notable success involved a campaign against entrapment...
As for DeSalvo, the outcome made little difference to him. He seems to be have best in a rigorously structured environment, and he has repeatedly said he did not want to be freed anyway. Now, instead of being confined to a mental institution, he has been sentenced to life in...