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Word: parolees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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To be brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Thanatos Is Comin' to Town | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stranded Stars | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

The experience of Ron Rusich, 29, a house painter in Mobile, was typical. In 1984 he received a 15-year sentence for burglary. But an intensive probation scheme used in his state since 1982 eventually sent him back outside, and back to work, under strict supervision. A 10 p.m.-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Considering The Alternatives | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Easterling, serving an 18- to 20-year sentence, surprised prison officials by failing to return from his work-release job on October 17 because he had just 17 months to serve before he would have become eligible for parole.

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Murderer of Harvard Medical Student Returns After Escape | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Their advocates contend that these shows are educating viewers about the legal process. "I consider myself a judge doing on TV what I did for 20 years on the bench," says Keene of Divorce Court. People's Court, still the genre's great original, has clearly increased public understanding of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tell It to the Judges | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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