Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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>More attention to the total concept of criminal justice, not just the period from arrest through trial. Stressing his deep concern about prison reform, Burger told the lawyers: "We can no longer limit our responsibility to providing defense services for the judicial process, yet continue to be miserly with the...
Hney Newton, the Minister of Defense, is in jail-receiving monotonously regular rejections to his requests for parole-and many people think he is dead. Bobby Scale, the Panther Chairman, is in jail, too-and if the State of Connecticut has its way, he may soon really be dead. He...
It was mere hyperbole, of course. The jury evidently wanted to damn Sills, who is 50, to death in jail, but an ordinary sentence of life imprisonment would have accomplished that: besides, he will probably be considered for parole in 20 years. The Dallas sentence opened up the possibilities of...
Neurotics Anonymous must be doing something right. It has gained the recognition of the California Department of Mental Hygiene, which considers it a useful adjunct to formal psychotherapy. The state's parole board distributes N.A. literature to parolees, as do mental hospitals and Veterans Administration hospitals elsewhere in the U.S. If N.A. works at all, it is because it allows people to share their emotional distress with other troubled but sympathetic members. "It's not the specific therapeutic factors involved but the responsiveness and effective human relationship that are doing good," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, head...
Who or Why. Products of the grim Appalachian hills, the three had drifted to Cleveland and failure. Gilly was once arrested for nonsupport of his family. Vealey was on parole from a burglary conviction. Martin was serving a 55-day term in the workhouse for assaulting a policeman.