Sentence examples for won parole from inspiring English sources
After 30 years in prison, Mr. Busic has won parole.
As a federal inmate (unlike Clark who is in a state prison), Buck won parole in 2010 after serving 26 years of a 50-year sentence for the Brinks robbery and related crimes.
An assassin who killed an anti-apartheid leader in South Africa in 1993 has won parole, igniting bitter memories of racial unrest during white rule as well as fresh scrutiny of the punishment for crimes committed in that era.
Memories here still are raw of the notorious pedophile and serial murderer Marc Dutroux, who in the 1990s won parole after molestation charges, managed to qualify for a government pension and be given prescriptions for sedatives that he ended up using on some of his young victims.
He also began writing the essays that would eventually be collected in Soul on Ice, and whose publication in Ramparts magazine helped him win parole in 1966.
After his grandmother's appeal, Mr. Henderson, who had hoped to earn a slim chance of one day winning parole, addressed the dead man's family.
Mr. Simpson was sentenced in 2008 to up to 33 years in prison in the Las Vegas robbery case, but that sentence could be reduced if he wins parole hearings and is given credit for good behavior.
Leslie Van Houten tried today for a 14th time to win parole after more than 30 years in prison for her role in the Manson cult's killings of Rosemary and Leno La Bianca in 1969, but the parole board led her through a chilling recollection of the stabbings and again denied her freedom.
Mr. Abbott, the killer who killed again after winning parole nine years ago with the help of the writer Norman Mailer, is the defendant in a hearing in which the widow of Richard Adan, an aspiring actor he killed outside an East Village restaurant in Manhattan in July 1981, is seeking to have financial damages assessed by a jury.
But Commissioner Tom Bordonaro, a Republican who calls himself tough on crime, confirmed that the proportion of inmates winning parole is growing.
