Word: parolees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A quarter of a century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was...
*Chicago Surgeon John F. Pick reported (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) that less than i% of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery from Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary got into any more trouble; usual rate for parole violation was 17%.
Pianist Gieseking didn't know far enough, as he soon found out. First, he learned that he was only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the...
Last week Tarantino struck back. Shipping thousands of extra copies of Nite Life into the Bay area, he gave San Franciscans a shocking story under a black, front-page headline: FREDDIE FRANCISCO-EMBEZZLER-THIEF. Who was Freddie Francisco? Why, said Tarantino, he was a man of eight aliases, with a...
Since society does not yet recognize the close relationship between criminal and victim, Dr. von Hentig says, the whole machinery of prisons, parole boards and probation is drastically out of date. Until a new theory of crime prevention is adopted, he believes that victims will go on being a self...