Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To be brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward...
Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is...
The experience of Ron Rusich, 29, a house painter in Mobile, was typical. In 1984 he received a 15-year sentence for burglary. But an intensive probation scheme used in his state since 1982 eventually sent him back outside, and back to work, under strict supervision. A 10 p.m.-to...
Easterling, serving an 18- to 20-year sentence, surprised prison officials by failing to return from his work-release job on October 17 because he had just 17 months to serve before he would have become eligible for parole.
Their advocates contend that these shows are educating viewers about the legal process. "I consider myself a judge doing on TV what I did for 20 years on the bench," says Keene of Divorce Court. People's Court, still the genre's great original, has clearly increased public understanding of...