Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigating a report of a stolen moped, New York City Police Officer Thomas Ruotolo approached a man to question him about the scooter he was riding. Suddenly the man pulled a gun and started firing. Ruotolo was killed, and two other officers were wounded. When he was arrested hours later...
The anguished outcries in New York and California concern the same problem: penal systems that too often free prisoners who seem obvious threats to society. But the two cases also illustrate how difficult solutions are. The parole system many New Yorkers are so eager to abandon could end up being...
In the second half of the 19th century, judges in the U.S. sentenced most criminals to flat prison terms, and convicts were expected to serve them in full. But they seldom did; the penitentiaries, then as now, were always full, and Governors would sometimes pardon prisoners wholesale or delegate that...
In the 1970s a new generation of prison critics took a hard look at indeterminate sentencing and the parole system and concluded that the reforms needed reform. Both liberals and conservatives joined in a movement to do away with pa role boards and adopt fixed sentences.
In recent years, the program has also achieved some success in efforts to win sentence commutations for convicted murderers serving life sentences Working through a slow and intricate state bureaucracy, student attorneys petition the Governor to grant these inmates eligibility for parole.