Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barnes, 51, won his notoriety when, as the most flamboyant member of a Mafia-style council of seven "blood brothers," he earned millions distributing heroin throughout Harlem. In 1977 he was finally nailed, and the sentence was stiff: life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Six years later, Mr. Untouchable turned...
As long as our courts continue to be lenient, we must accept the 21,000 murders committed each year in this country. Murder has become as American as football and apple pie. The serial killers are surely guilty, but so are the parole boards that release these men into society...
The stark alternatives of surgical castration and incarceration ignore some other programs for treating sex offenders. One newly popular approach, sometimes dubbed chemical castration, uses a drug called Depo-Provera,* which sharply diminishes sex drive in men by reducing their production of testosterone. The drug gained national attention last summer...
To avoid the drastic remedy imposed in New York City, at least eight states, most recently Texas, Florida and South Carolina, have passed "emergency powers" laws that are triggered every time state prisons become overcrowded: the parole eligibility dates of offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes are then brought forward by...
At the same time, many legislatures have doubled and tripled the length of minimum prison sentences. Between 1970 and 1980, the number of inmates serving minimum terms of six years or more at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole rose from 28% to 60%. In addition, about ten states (most...