Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convicted of forging checks, Sally (Debra Margolies) has been sentenced to a six-year term at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Framingham. However, only two years into the sentence, a sympathetic parole board grants her freedom at 21. Life outside smacks of trouble. She returns to an estranged husband, Sonny...
He was a fugitive from the North, and his hard, lean looks, the result of a life in prison that consumed nearly 25 of his 37 years, enabled Jack Henry Abbott to mix in easily with the transient roustabouts who work the Louisiana oilfields. It was the sort of life...
The recommendation that stands the best chance of being passed by Congress is bail reform. The task force suggests that judges be allowed to consider the "dangerousness" of a defendant before setting him free on bail; in general, judges are now supposed to base their bail decisions only on the...
Two officials who shared in the spoils were also punished. Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson, 52, received the same sentence as Myers. Because of his extensive involvement, New Jersey State Senator Angelo Errichetti received the harshest sentence: one six-year term, two five-year terms and $40,000 in fines...
Abbott was staying at a Salvation Army halfway house in Lower Manhattan until his parole became official on Aug. 25. He was required to check in seven times a day, but otherwise was free to enjoy the city. He was doing just that on early Saturday morning, July 18, in...