Last year they applied for medical parole for him on the grounds that he suffered from a heart condition, high blood pressure, dizzy spells and problems with his legs that had caused him to fall on a number of occasions.
Last year, they had applied for medical parole for him on the grounds that he suffered from a heart condition, high blood pressure, dizzy spells and problems with his legs that had caused him to repeatedly fall.
Mr. Loeb was slashed to death in prison by a former cell mate in 1936, but Mr. Leopold remained in confinement for two more decades, until, in 1958, Mr. Gertz obtained parole for him with the argument that he had been entirely rehabilitated.
The members of the parole panel commended him for his improved prison record.
Schrade showed flashes of anger against Roberts, the parole commissioner, who admonished him for violating protocol by addressing Sirhan directly.
When Keen, the shiftless narrator of the title story, recounts a lurid chapter of his youth in high-definition detail, he doesn't do it because he cares about his own psychology, but because an unnamed counselor (probably a parole officer) has asked him for a report on "a happier time".
At the start of July the justice secretary, Jack Straw, refused his request for parole, accusing him of being "utterly unrepentant" about his crimes.
Omar Muhammad Ali al-Rammah, a Yemeni who was captured in the Republic of Georgia and has been held at the offshore prison in Cuba since 2003, has been waiting for 16 months to hear whether the Periodic Review Board ― the interagency panel that oversees detainees' parole-style hearings ― has cleared him for release.
Supporters and relatives fear for the life of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's jailed nephew after officials refused him medical parole for surgery.
It was in jail that he attended his first art classes, and his parole officer arranged for him to go to the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1953.
