Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps an ex-prisoner is just the person to deal with prisoners. That seemed to be the idea when former Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa, paroled from a federal penitentiary last December after serving nearly five years for jury tampering and mail fraud, tried to go to North Viet...
Died. Sanford Bates, 88, reform-minded penologist who presided over the massive expansion of the federal prison system during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations; in Trenton, N.J. A lawyer, Bates was named head of Massachusetts' correctional institutions in 1919, and introduced such innovations as a merit pay system and...
In his campaign Wylie stresses McCann's opposition to what he considers to be progressive legislation. He cites McCann's votes against lowering the voting and drinking age to 18, and his vote for the two-thirds parole--a law that would have required all prison inmates, regardless of their...
Sir / Thanks to the Supreme Court decision on capital punishment [July 10], we the people must provide free food, clothes, housing and medical care for creatures that have wriggled up out of earth's primal slime. Unless, as is likely, the parole boards turn them loose once again upon...
Despite Nixon's effort to narrow the policymaking role of the court, the Burger Court had a broader impact this year than at any time since the Warren era. In addition to the capital punishment decision, the court last week also ruled that a parolee can no longer be sent back to prison at the discretion of his parole officer, but must be given a fair hearing. Earlier, it declared most vagrancy statutes unconstitutionally vague and required that a lawyer be made available to any indigent facing jail-no matter how small his offense. It also found that...