Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Study revealed that nearly 200 offenders would either have received the same sentence or were on the verge of being released anyway. That left more than 400 candidates for executive clemency. A special team of ten lawyers, six investigators and 60 Chicago area law students and professors was assembled to...
Last week, 3½ months after he ordered the review, Ogilvie granted clemency to the first 41 defendants. Most of them were first offenders, and will be freed after a few further formalities. The Governor expects to have received recommendations from the parole board on the remaining cases by the...
Rabbit now sees himself as a C-minus human being, and practically boasts, "1 don't think enough to know what 1 think." His gut reaction to difficult issues is a cynical conservatism. Like so many lifers with little hope of parole, he defends his prison because he must...
In a twinge of jealousy over her lumberman boy friend, the wife of a Phoenix physician chopped up a couple of the lumberman's lady friends and shipped them to California in trunks. Now-after 40 years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie...
...Parolees are almost as bereft of rights as prisoners. So lower federal courts declined to intervene when Raymond Arciniega's parole was revoked. After serving nearly eight years of his ten-year sentence for selling heroin, Arciniega went to work booking acts into a Torrance, Calif., nightspot. Unfortunately for him, two other ex-convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume...