Word: parolees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defenders of furlough programs point out that weekend leaves offer relief at a time when prisons around the country are dangerously overcrowded. Behavior during furloughs can help determine how an inmate up for parole might function in society. According to John Larivee, executive director of Boston's Crime and Justice...
It is the personal contact offered by the program which attracts many of the prisoners in the first place, prisoners and organizers say. "Initially all these guys are coming down to look at some cute girls," O'Connell says. "These guys have on their best clothes, their best linens." Prisoners...
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the show tells the story of Jean Valjean (William Solo, who understudied the role on Broadway). Paroled in 1815, Valjean realizes he must break parole if he is to have any success in the outside world.
AFTER he has lived with the now-grown Cosette (Tamara Jenkins) for some time, Valjean realizes he is devoted to her, and the focal point of his life becomes taking care of his beloved "daughter." However, he must also run from Javert (Herndon Lackey), his relentless parole officer.
There was a peculiar precedent for her escape: in 1979 Sara Jane Moore, who tried to kill Ford just 17 days after Fromme's attempt, escaped from Alderson (Moore was recaptured only hours later and sent to a California prison). Fromme's flight surprised prison officials, particularly since the mild...