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unusual facts about parole



Alphonse Daudet

Daudet counted many literary figures amongst his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic League of France and founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.

Barthélemy Catherine Joubert

Wounded and made prisoner in the battle, he was released on parole by Austrian Commander-in-Chief De Vins, soon afterwards.

Billy Sinclair

Charles Jones, a former member of the Louisiana Senate and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, represented Sinclair during meetings of the Louisiana Board of Parole.

Bob Benge

There, Benge negotiated the surrender of the garrison and its defenders with the promise of safe passage; Doublehead and his band violated the parole by immediately attacking and killing them all, men, women, and children, indiscriminately, as soon as they were outside the small fort, over the pleas of Benge, John Watts, and James Vann.

Brian Keith Jones

On August 8, 2005 the Victorian government represented by Peter Faris, QC, applied to the County Court of Victoria for a 15-year supervision order under the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act, enabling Jones to be supervised once his parole term expired.

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

During his parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, but unfortunately for him, the council believe that it's stupid to listen to a dog.

Butana Almond Nofomela

Former apartheid Askari was released from the Pretoria Central Prison on parole after he had served 22 years of a life sentence.

Capital punishment in American Samoa

Recently, Governor Togiola Tulafono proposed to abolish the death penalty and make life in prison without parole a sole punishment for murder.

Cheri Maples

For 25 years Cheri Maples worked in the criminal justice system, as an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the head of Probation & Parole for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and as a police officer with the City of Madison Police Department, earning the rank of Captain of Personnel and Training.

Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act

Passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, the law applies to any native or citizen of Cuba who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959 and has been physically present for at least one year; and is admissible to the United States as a permanent resident.

Depraved-heart murder

A person who, at the time he or she committed murder, was 18 years of age or older, will receive a life sentence, with a minimum non-parole period of 15 years (under the 2003 Criminal Justice Act), unless at least 1 aggravating factor, as defined in the Criminal Justice Act that would warrant a longer non-parole period to be handed down.

Durrty Goodz

Mahorn's brother, a grime artist as well, known as "Crazy Titch" (real name Carl Dobson), was accused and later convicted of murdering 21-year-old Richard Holmes, and was sentenced to 30 years without parole.

Édouard Corbière

He was a prisoner on parole at Tiverton, Devon, until November 1811 when he was sent to Stapleton Prison near Bristol.

Frank Tannenbaum

In 1931, he reported to the Wickersham Commission study on Penal Institutions, Probation and Parole (Volume 9).

Gambrell

Marilyn Gambrell, parole officer turned teacher who started the program No More Victims at the M.B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas

Giuseppe Prina

Ugo Foscolo, Alcune parole intorno alla fine del Regno d'Italia.

Henry family of New Zealand

Sir Trevor Henry was a justice in the Supreme Court of New Zealand and was also involved following his retirement in a number of public service roles including being Chairman of the War Pensions Review Board, a member of the New Zealand Parole Board and a member of the New Zealand Olympic Games Selection Committee of 1936.

Henry Lee Lucas

In 1998, the Texas Board of Pardon and Parole voted to commute Lucas's death sentence to life imprisonment, in accordance with Governor George W. Bush's request.

James Tramel

Immediately upon his parole, Tramel began serving as an assistant pastor at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Berkeley, California.

Joe Lisi

He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys as a construction worker.

Julio Cesar Matthews

However, later in 2010, Matthews was returned to prison in Pennsylvania for a parole violation, winding up in a situation similar to boxer Tony Ayala, Jr., perhaps ending his boxing career.

Killer on the Road

He is sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, and placed into solitary confinement in Sing Sing Prison.

Michael Alig

His first parole request, in November 2006, was denied, allegedly after parole officers watched the fictional movie based on Alig's life Party Monster, starring Macaulay Culkin.

Micki Dickoff

Since 1993, Dickoff has been working on a documentary on the female members of the Manson Family and has attended each parole hearing for Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.

Murder of Jessica Currin

In March 2007, Quincy Omar Cross of Tiptonville, Tennessee, was charged with the murder and in April 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Parole Chicago

Parole Chicago was a German television series directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky, starring Christoph Waltz as Eduard "Ede" Bredo, an inept wannabe criminal in 1920s Berlin.

Pepe Soriano

Soraino has also recently turned to his Jewish roots in theatre works such as Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green, where he teaches an unsympathetic parole officer a lesson in kinship and in cinema such as in the Chilean film, El brindis ("The Toast," 2007), where a Jewish-Chilean patriarch struggles to bring his disparate family closer.

Preventive detention

The longest non-parole period on a sentence of preventive detention is one of 30 years, being served by William Bell, in 2003, he was sentenced to a minimum non-parole period of 33 years for killing three people in Auckland in December 2001.The sentence was later reduced to 30 years.

René Lemarant de Kerdaniel

He was taken in captivity to England and spent four months on a hulk in Chatham, before being sent back to France on parole.

Rich Crotty

One of the last pieces of legislation he sponsored was the "Junny Rios-Martinez Act" in 1992, named after the victim of former Florida Death Row inmate Mark Dean Schwab, which denied parole and early release to violent sexual predators.

Salvatore Cardillo

Cardillo's richly scored and still popular 1911 romance Core 'ngrato (Ungrateful Heart) — also known by its lyric Catarì, Catarì, pecchè me dici sti parole amare — was written in America to a text in Neapolitan dialect by Alessandro Sisca; it is in fact the only famous Neapolitan song by an Italian-American immigrant.

Samuel Tucker

Tucker was among the prisoners but received parole on 20 May and was exchanged for British Capt. Wardlaw, whom Tucker had captured when Boston took HMS Thorn in September 1779.

Sara Kruzan

In reaction to this case Democratic Senator, Leland Yee of San Francisco stated, "Life without parole means absolutely no opportunity for release....

Simon Whelan

Whelan served from 2008 to 2013 as the Chairman of the Adult Parole Board of Victoria, until replaced by Justice Elizabeth Curtain.

Soyons unis, devenons frères

In August 2010, the Congress of New Caledonia adopted the first three of those signs: an anthem, a motto ("Terre de parole, terre de partage"; "Land of speech, land of sharing"), and local symbols on New Caledonian currency.

Teiichi Suzuki

Suzuki was given a life sentence by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in 1948, but he was released on parole from Sugamo Prison for war crimes in Tokyo in 1955 and given a full pardon.

Tôn-Thất Tiết

Tôn-Thất Tiết composed the scores for Trần Anh Hùng's three feature films: The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo, and The Vertical Ray of the Sun, and has also collaborated with French choreographer Régine Chopinot on two of her dance pieces: Parole de feu (1995) and Danse du temps (1999).

William Orlando Butler

The Indians captured Butler and sent him to Fort Niagara where he remained until the British freed him on parole.


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