Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald, a chunky, earnest man who, before moving to New York as a top parole officer, had won high praise from penologists for modernizing Wisconsin's prisons, rushed to Attica from his Albany office. He arrived on
ABOLISH FIXED SENTENCES. "It takes a Superior correctional counselor to inspire in an inmate a desire for self-improvement when he faces several hundred years of confinement," observes Fred Wilkinson, Missouri's Chief of Corrections, with some hyperbole. Indeterminate sentences have been used in California for years. Sometimes, as...
More dispassionate witnesses point out that Attica is neither the best nor the worst of New York State's prisons. In fact, its prisoners have been successful in winning some improvements in their conditions-leading some Attica townspeople to complain that the "permissiveness" of the prison management was to...
There are signs that many employees feel a company ought to put its money where its image is. Last week, in response to a year of quiet urging by employee groups, Xerox Corp. announced that each year it will select 20 or more of its 38,000 U.S. employees for...
Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense that scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence. Did the parole examiners who prolonged his term turn him into a political prisoner? Jackson filled his long stretch-more than seven years of it in...