Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Los Angeles. Police continue to make drug arrests at a rate of 60,000 a year, roughly the same as in 1988 and 1989. There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at...
The Lifers insist they get no special treatment for their good works, no favoritism from the parole board. For many, a tangled struggle for survival landed them behind bars in the first place. Now they use what limited means they have to ease that struggle for someone else. "Society looks...
I'm appalled at the justice system. He was convicted of killing her and sentenced to six years and is eligible for parole in two. I've heard of drug posession sentences much higher.
Prejean's guilt was never in dispute. Early on the morning of July 2, 1977, Louisiana state trooper Donald Cleveland stopped Prejean and his brother Joseph on a routine traffic violation. As Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired...
Those and other legal arguments eventually failed as the Supreme Court steadily narrowed the grounds to block executions. But clemency is rooted in morality as well as the law, and these grounds prompted the Louisiana board of pardons to recommend commuting Prejean's sentence to life imprisonment without parole. And...