Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We were wrong. We are coming to the unhappy realization that the police can rarely prevent crime and can solve at best only a small fraction of offenses. We now know that prisons cannot rehabilitate offenders. Hundreds of experimental studies on the treatment of criminals reach the same conclusion: no...
> In another decision last week the Supreme Court wrote finis to the legal aftermath of the My Lai massacre by refusing to review the case of former Army Lieut. William Calley Jr. Galley's 1971 court-martial conviction for the murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in 1968 had been...
They are members of the Forever Family, a youth-oriented evangelistic group. They say they espouse a return to a primitive "New Testament" brand of Christianity. With apparent success, they forbid drinking, drugs and premarital sex. Thus far, they may have made more enemies than converts. Their hard-driving proselytizing...
Holcombe now says the strict provisions of the reinstatement may force him to resign the post of shop steward. "I feel like I'm on parole," he said last week.
Elsewhere totals climbed not only because crime and the number of arrests increased but also because judges were meting out longer sentences and parole boards were harder to persuade that some inmates should be freed.