Word: parolee
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A prisoner's days can be spent productively?a queer industriousness, to be sure?or endlessly loafing. At Leavenworth, he might do his time making pig bristles into paintbrushes, and earn about 60¢ an hour. In Texas, the director of prisons says he runs "quasimilitary operations," and his close-cropped...
Seigler must serve his sentence and will not be eligible for parole for twelve years. Said Defense Attorney John Dodson: "I can't tell you how badly he feels."
The fourth case surfaced in Houston. Coral Eugene Watts, 28, a bus mechanic, was about to go to trial for burglary and attempted murder when authorities announced an unusual plea-bargain deal. In exchange for a 60-year sentence on the burglary charge, making him eligible for parole in 20...
The release of the Haitians is the result of a yearlong legal battle by human rights activists to modify the tough immigration procedures enforced since last summer by the Reagan Administration as part of its effort to discourage illegal immigration into the U.S. (Almost 1 million illegal aliens were caught...
The first is that contrary to what Sen. Orrin Hatch (R. -Utah) and his conservative colleagues will insist, the Hinckley verdict is not an expansion of the rights of the accused. It is novel only because the insanity defense has never worked in such a widely publicized case. The verdict...