Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simply because Jackson was so often to be placed in isolation and invariably denied parole--both of which are judgment calls--it is impossible to view him apart from the people and procedures of the state's prison system and the forces that affect them.
A long time man is a prison expression conceived on the southern chain gangs and used to describe an inmate who is serving a long sentence. When George Jackson confessed to the $70 gas station stick-up of which Los Angeles Country had accused him, he became a three-time...
However, Jackson also had a number of reasons to expect that he might be released within a year or at least within a few years. The average time served by a California lifer is less than 15 years. So, at worst, Jackson might have anticipated parole by the time he...
Finally, because California's three-time losers law sets the maximum of the indeterminate sentence at life, George Jackson faced a life in which he would always have something to lose--his chance for release from prison or his life--but in which there would always be something he could...
Jackson was recommitted to the Youth Authority, and served in its institutions until he was granted parole in June, 1960. Three months later, he was arrested again in Los Angeles and charged with a $70 service station stick-up. Although at no time denying having been involved to some degree...