Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The ten on trial were arrested in the Chicago suburb of Evanston,Ill., last April following the holdup of a car rental agency. Four months later in Cook County courtrooms, two were convicted of robbery and sentenced to 30 years, while the others received eight-year terms for conspiracy and...
Talks between Catholic prelates and British officials also failed to produce concessions on the prisoners' other demands: the right to wear their own clothes, to refrain from work, to have free association with each other, to organize their own educational and recreational facilities, to receive one visit, letter and...
Many prisoners hope so too. Colorado convicts are so pleased to have an alternative to sitting in their cells that they put in 50-hour weeks repairing school buses. At Stillwater earlier this year, one inmate obtained parole but refused to leave; first he wanted to finish overhauling an engine...
Sentences can be harsh; some economic crimes, such as major embezzlement of state property, can even bring death. Judges generally do not hand down the long prison hitches that U.S. courts often mete out in anticipation of early parole, but Soviet convicts are more likely to serve full terms. And...
Sentencing. The present system is based on the now discredited theory that prisons rehabilitate; criminals are given lengthy terms, but routinely receive parole. The Senate bill calls for more uniform, realistic sentences and the elimination of early parole; the House proposal retains parole. Advocates of the Senate version argue that...