Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The arrested men, who were identified from a television news videotape, are described by police as criminals linked to a vicious South Central gang known as the 8-Trey Gangster Crips. But supporters see the defendants as five young black men being scapegoated by a racist legal system that will...
Baptiste was sentenced in June 1991 to nine to10 years in state prison, and was to be releasedon parole after serving one year.
In a memo issued to all students, Queen identifies the man as Jean Baptiste, who in 1991 was convicted of raping two summer school students. Baptiste was racently released on parole from Cedar Junction State Prison.
Rufo fumes when he hears the new environs derided as "glamour slammers," as they are by critics who argue that it is politically unwise to make convicts so comfortable. Explains Denver-based criminal-justice consultant Ray Nelson: "Carpeting on the floors, ceramic rather than steel toilets, coordinated uniforms, wooden cell...
Harris' execution was scheduled for this week but may be delayed by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge. Assuming that California clears away this last obstacle, the execution would be the state's first in 25 years. It would also end Harris' 13-year odyssey through state...