Some prisoners on medical parole are being placed in nursing homes, and opinion is divided on whether they are a threat to the public or to the homes’ other residents.
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New York State revamps its policy on parolees, reducing the number that are returned to prison for minor parole violations; new guidelines sort parolees as low- or high-risk and tailor their supervision accordingly, in an effort to reduce recidivism rates. Photo (M)6
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The lawyers for Barry Bonds paid $455 and filed a notice to the federal trial court in San Francisco late Wednesday, saying that Bonds was asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to toss out his conviction.
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One court program to help keep offenders from returning to prison has had a 100 percent success rate; another, 88 percent. Both are being eliminated because of budget cuts.
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A reader responds on an editorial regarding parole and the death penalty.
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A reader responds to an editorial on the use of parole in the justice system.
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A fair-minded society should not sentence anyone to life without parole except as an alternative to the death penalty.
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Authorities said that Casey Anthony, who has remained hidden since a jury acquitted her of killing her daughter, was polite and cooperative during a meeting with her probation officer.
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 Parole hearings take on new urgency for victims’ families as California copes with prison overcrowding.
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Charles Baeza, 72, tried to buy a gun and silencer from an undercover officer, the police said, 20 years after he was convicted of killing his estranged wife.
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Casey Anthony must return to Orlando within two weeks to serve a year’s probation for check fraud, a Florida judge ruled Friday.
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Patrick Gleason, an ex-convict from Maywood, has a starring role in a new independent film, “Fancypants.”
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A Moscow court on Monday refused a parole request by Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed former oil tycoon, citing a lack of proper paperwork.
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States must rethink parole and probation policies that drive hundreds of thousands of people back to prison every year, not for new crimes, but for technical violations.
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A former Congressional aide who pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal was sentenced to probation rather than prison on Wednesday.
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