Word: parolee
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Precious prison space must also be allocated more judiciously. Penologists say that means not only finding alternative penalties for nonviolent offenders, but offering parole to rehabilitated old-timers. Often the hotheads who enter the system while still in their teens and 20s chill out by their 30s and 40s. Life...
The initial setting for the film is the war zone of Belfast in 1974. English troops parole the streets with rifles on their hips; when a youth, stealing scrap metal from a roof, waves a stick around, these troops pronounce him a "sniper" and shoot at him. The young man...
Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann is drafting a list of compromise options for President Clinton in the case of JONATHAN POLLARD, the American spy for Israel serving a life term in prison. The Israelis want Pollard freed; the FBI, CIA and Pentagon bitterly oppose this. One option is a commutation...
Since it was launched in July 1991 by legal journalist and editor Steven Brill, the Courtroom Television Network (of which Time Warner is part owner) has immersed cable viewers in the slow, sometimes tedious, often mesmerizing workings of the American judicial system. With 47 states now allowing cameras in the...
Court TV has embarked on an effort to broaden its programming beyond its staple of live trial coverage. The network runs hourly judicial-news updates all day and weekly prime-time segments on consumer law, small-claims courts, * and parole and death-penalty issues. This month it will introduce The...